crackerjacker
September 9th, 2005, 11:50 AM
A local arm of China Telecom, the country's biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, has moved to block access to a computer-to-telephone call service offered internationally by Skype, the European internet telephony company.
Skype does not offer the fee-paying “SkypeOut” service to mainland Chinese users of its software and the action against it by the China Telecom unit has not affected the European company's free computer-to-computer telephone service.
more here
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/fa123bc4-2150-11da-a603-00000e2511c8.html
that sucks but hey that is china for you, and its their right because its their country, although i think it sucks.
personally though i am sure people use yahoo messsenger and the like and talk to each other for free.
Skype does not offer the fee-paying “SkypeOut” service to mainland Chinese users of its software and the action against it by the China Telecom unit has not affected the European company's free computer-to-computer telephone service.
more here
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/fa123bc4-2150-11da-a603-00000e2511c8.html
that sucks but hey that is china for you, and its their right because its their country, although i think it sucks.
personally though i am sure people use yahoo messsenger and the like and talk to each other for free.