On 12/16/05, Steve Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:27:22AM -0500, C F wrote: > > > The point, I was very surprised to see that Israel has such laws that > > still gives Bezek the control to stay the monopoly. But they do, it is > > illegal in Israel to open a VoIP company like what we can do here > > (which is getting harder here as well because of the 911 requirments). > > Unless you have a license as a phone company. > > Why is that so odd? The UK only deregulated voice a couple of years ago > as part of an EU directive. Previously any one offering voice services > had to have a telco license, now anybody can be a telco (but they have > obligations under the Communications Act, which many are not aware of or > maybe ignore). > > It takes a while for countries to demonopolise state companies (I don't > think the French gov has divested all of FT yet) ... Israel will get > there. > > Also once you let phone calls out into the wild, you cant tap them and > governments may have a vested interest to do so. > > > Steve >
Israel has already deregulated them, that's why it's so odd. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
