After blogs and websites, the government is planning a clampdown on BPOs and KPOs over, what it feels is, illegal use of internet telephony.
The Indian Government claims that they are losing alot of money due to the increasing popularity of Skype and VOIP. They are missing out on the 12% tax and 6% fees. A direct quote from the article ...
It 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.
First blogs, then websites, now Skype. What will the Indian govt. take away next?