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VOIP to be Made Illegal in India
Krish writes "Providers like Skype, Yahoo, Net2phone, Dialpad, etc. will not be able to offer VOIP in India under the proposed govt. clampdown. BPOs and other call centers will face the axe if they use any of the VOIP services provided by the above companies. It is not clear if this clampdown will affect regular home users."
No we wouldn't. Lonely, emotionally troubled males aged 16-45 aren't exactly rare.
IP phones by 2007: Cisco
New Delhi, Dec. 6: Cisco Systems said on Wednesday that it plans to set up a pilot facility in Chennai by April 2007, to manufacture internet protocol phones. Cisco is planning to triple its head count in India from the present 2,000 to 6,000 in the next three years. Cisco also announced the next stage of its globalisation strategy with the selection of India as the site for its globalisation centre. It has appointed Mr Wim Elfrink as its chief globalisation officer, who will relocate to Bangalore in January.
Cisco expects that India will contribute 5 per cent of Ciscos revenue in the next two to three years and will provide half of the future growth in its staff numbers, said chairman and CEO Cisco systems, John Chambers, after meeting Union IT and communications minister Dayanidhi Maran. In line with the companys outsourced manufacturing model, Cisco has selected one of its global partners, Foxconn, to work on the facility, said Mr Chambers.
Mr Chambers added that Cisco chose India as its globalisation vision, because India has a highly skilled workforce, supportive government and world class partners that already have global capabilities. Cisco would invest $100 million to expand its technical services out of India. In the last year Cisco invested $5 million in Indiagames and Bharti Telesoft and expects to invest another $25 million to $30 million in the next few months in Indian companies involved in broadband content and digital media.
These investments are part of the $1.1 billion that the company had committed in November 2005. Ciscos growing investments across all its operation areas in India is a vindication of the increasingly self sustaining ecosystem that the country provides for business to thrive and compete in a globalised economy, said Mr Chambers.