[AFRI-Discuss] Fwd: [FOSSFA Members] Skype and Other Voice Over IP Banned in Comoros

Kivuva Kivuva at transworldafrica.com
Thu Aug 29 18:37:03 UTC 2013


Banning VoIP is such a dinosaur way of doing things. If companies
cannot innovate and face challenges of modern times, then let them die
a natural death.

BLocking VoIP will generate many back street proxy services and they
will go back to square one.

Banning VoIP also goes against the basic tenets of net-neutrality,
really the civil society in Comoros should not take this lying down

On 29/08/2013, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Skype and Other Voice Over IP Banned in Comoros
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> Skype and other voice over IP that allows online phone conversation are now
> suspended in Comoros. The website Linfo.re reports [fr] :
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> The state-owned company Comores Telecom just officially banned any type of
> voice over IP softwares, effectively blocking any kind of free online phone
> coversation for internet users in Comoros.
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> The company explains that this measure was taken to protect its financial
> sustainability, since 90% of its earnings come from phone calls.
>
> The news website La Gazette des Comores adds that a formal complaint has
> been filed [fr] by the consumers association:
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> The IT consumers association has filed a complaint against Comores Telecom
> with the High Authority of IT Affairs, the body in charge of settling any
> complaints between IT providers and users..
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> The association argues that it is for the users to pay for the
> mismanagement of the company and that Comoros is not a dictatorship that
> can allow people's rights to be trampled upon.
>
> On August 5, internet users have also set up a facebook page named " Say No
> to censorship from Comores Telecom" [fr]. They argue that the company,
> instead of opening the world to Comoros as their ads proclaim, has shut off
> Comoros from the rest of the world :
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> Photo taken from the Facebook page "Non aux Censures de COMORES TELECOM"
> with permission
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