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Not sure of all the details as of yet. But have just been informed by a quite distressed next door neighbours wife (non EK), that a few persons from her husbands' company have been arrested in a nearby Emirate because of some VOIP hardware they were using. All members of this company have been warned today not to use any VOIP, as your favourite phone company, and the police are conducting a crack down.
It was an independant system with phone attached and not via the PC . Not sure of the brand name, or how they were found out. Seems Police raided the homes, and took all PCs and the phones, and locked the guys up. Charges are pending.
Anyone else have any info about this?

No not heard but this wouldn't surprise me given the telco wants to keep a majority hold on the voice traffic. Voice traffic means chargable instances. Chargable instances mean $£€ in revenue.

Shame, I've not yet seen any law on VoIP and whether its regarded as technical subterfuge or other. Doubt there is a law governing the use of the telephony system to send anything other than chargable voice calls and data. Camels!

Still, there's a nice program called TOR onion routing. Anyone heard of it? I think I read a while back ,possibly 8 months that someone had made a mod that allows VoIP packets to be disassembled and reassembled in the correct order. Makes obfuscating the data much harder when using Skype to 'evade' the ludicrously expensive calls home eh? Other than that, pigeons being made illegal?!?

Fucktard Dibbles!

Yo Dell ..

This is confirmed. There was a recent crackdown over this issue & many people have been arrested for this.

I got this news yesterday from a person i know who does VOIP installations. Even he is scared about being busted.

Etisalat already have started blocking major VOIP Services & Calling Card systems.

A crackdown on all internet cafes, computer shops & some known companies has been around for a while now. But these days its in a full Boost.

There was this internal news i got where somebody told me that Etisalat or the new telecom is to launch Internet Calling cards & VOIP Services.
So may be this is the reason they are bursting out other companies to put in their own stuff

Anyone who is caught using VOIP or anything such... they are into the bars + Lot of fines + confiscations.


So people out there.. beware....

why would they want to ban this program?

175bpm wrote:why would they want to ban this program?

'cause if people use it Etisalat loses potential revenue.

They are infact loosing nothing.

Even if people are using voip, they are indirectly using internet service from them & they are making a successful revenue no matter what.

Until and unless ( which by sept / oct of this year ) a new isp runs in & there is competition, there is nothing for them to worry about.

well 12 fils a min for dial up internet, or AED 3/min to make a long distance call, you are right the make money both ways but not the same amount. My phone bill is AED 2500/month my internet AED 250/month. My opinion is Etisalat is hungry they want both streams of revenue.

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