Indiatimes: The Indian government is giving final touches to a proposal under which ITeS companies must furnish the names of authorised service providers from whom bandwidth and internet telephony minutes have been taken. The companies will also have to give an undertaking that they WILL NOT use the services of unlicensed foreign service providers such as Net2Phone, Vonage, Dialpad, Impetus, Novanet, Euros, Skype and Yahoo.

So after trying to block blogs and so called anti national websites the govenment is after services such as Skype.
According to Department of Telecommunications’ (DOT) estimates, these unlicensed service companies (Skype and others) provide 30 million minutes of internet telephony per month to corporates, call centres and BPOs in the country. 

The government also felt that Foreign service providers could be a “serious security threat as they did not come under any Indian regulator and policy framework”.

Well as of now its only the corporates for whom the use of skype is being banned but could this become a norm even for general internet users? In dubai sype is banned even for normal users! Could we see such a move in India as well.. Im not sure but what i do know is that services like skype add a lot to business and personal communication and banning them would surely affect the rate of progress in this country. 

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