A South African telco invents the Skype charge
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For customers, especially those from emerging countries, Skype is a bless. For telecoms companies, it depends. Cheap VoIP talks aren’t a good business and they have to be restricted as T-Mobile did it in the UK with T-Mobile or like in the Net Neutrality debate in the US. MTN, a South-African ISP serving over 3 million customers, thinks so. It is planning to extra-charge its high-speed broadband service to people caught calling with Skype.
If MTN changes its conditions, the price of one megabits of data transfered would then increase by around 20 times. It will for sure chill everyone.
Instead of useless restrictions, here are two suggestions:
Why not considering a simple “regulation tax”? MTN charges only customers that over-use Skype or companies. We’re not working for the Grameen Phone, but obviously free communication tools boost the productivity of the country and help people start their own business.
MTN could take into consideration the new Skype Prime offering. They could plug it into their customers service, fix their own charges, and make their customers feel they’re on the same team.
Mar 12, 2007 | By Nuno
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