China blocks Skype web phone service

[crackerjacker]

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/fa123bc4-21...00e2511c8.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.

[Auggie2k]

Hola CJ! How are you?