Skype Holds Firm in Resisting Regulation
Here's a news story that caught my eye today. Sheryl pointed it out to me after the Squawkbox call this morning. She's on those regularly and I'm not these days.
Skype, while in many ways a telco, is in many ways determined to remain fiercely unreceptive to regulations like the Ofcom ruling. And for all we see watching inside the industry, they remain just as firmly committed to not being one of the open standards companies that embrace SIP for interoperability
Skype refuses to comply with 999 ruling Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve 24 Sep 2008Skype has said that it will not "comply with Ofcom's ruling" to allow users to call 999 emergency services from its handsets.
The internet telephony company said it did not believe the new regulations applied to it and says they could be " harmful" to the public's safety.
The decision to make internet telephony providers give free access to emergency numbers followed research carried out by Ofcom in December 2007.
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