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Panama Decrees Block To Kill VoIP Service

Posted by timothy on from the what-part-of-free-market-don't-you-understand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an apparent attempt to stem telephone company revenue losses due to Internet telephony, the government of Panama has decreed that 46 UDP ports be blocked by all Internet service providers. The ports include ones that are commonly used for voice over IP as well as some that are used for other purposes, apparently with the idea that these, too, could be used to circumvent the POTS (plain old telephone system, a term of art) in making telephone calls."

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  1. OT: Ambrosia by TheOnlyCoolTim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I remember playing Escape Velocity waaaay back in the day. Great game, man.

    Glad to see you are porting the newest one over to Windows, I haven't had a Mac in years and years....

    Tim

    --
    Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
  2. Inefficient Transportation? by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Then how do you suggest people that live in small towns get to work and shop if they do not have a personal automobile/roads?

    Mass transist does not work in a small town.

    And some of those 'corrupt' politicians dismantled public transportation because it was/is a very large sinkhole for tax dollars.