China 'to block VoIP calls for two years'

CHINA 'TO BLOCK VOIP CALLS FOR TWO YEARS'
[SOURCE: Financial Times, AUTHOR: Justine Lau]
China will not allow paid-for calls between computers and conventional telephones for at least two years, according to the head of Tom Online, the Chinese Internet portal which has a joint venture with Skype, the Internet telephony company. In the clearest indication so far of when charged telephone services based on the "voice over Internet protocol" system will be launched in China, Wang Leilei, Tom Online's chief executive said the government "is not going to issue VoIP licences until 2008".
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