The "original" article, that i think was one from the Register, was a misread.
The real original article from La Nacion, http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2005/febrero/12/pais1. html
(it is in spanish and you have to register).
Anyway it says that around 25% of phone calls to USA are made via VoIP. The whole article talks about "maybe" putting a tax into VoIP calls, and the ONLY reference it makes to ban it is a proposal to the congress made back in 1998.
They have two quotes from autorities, one is from the chief lawer of ICE, the only telecomunications goverment company, which yes is a monopoly and as far as some people could say it is far far better then most private companies in the world. IMO the best goverment owned company I know.
Anyway the quote says something like our company must undestand times have change, but we must penalice fraud. the only link to that is that they still don't know if VoIP could be a felony or not.
THe other quote is from the Security chief, who said something like: We are going to present a plan to regulate VoIP use in Costa Rica.
On a side note, you should know that they are a lot of companies of online bets based on Costa Rica, I don't have facts but maybe many of those 25% of calls are from them, calling their customers.
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Most people are OK with their software, because they don't know anything else.
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My uncle was IE/Messenger/hotmail, because that is what he knew. i show him firefox and gmail, he still uses msnMessenger
Most people will just use what microsoft gives them, and we all know that isn;t the best around.
The "original" article, that i think was one from the Register, was a misread. The real original article from La Nacion, http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2005/febrero/12/pais1. html
(it is in spanish and you have to register).
Anyway it says that around 25% of phone calls to USA are made via VoIP. The whole article talks about "maybe" putting a tax into VoIP calls, and the ONLY reference it makes to ban it is a proposal to the congress made back in 1998.
They have two quotes from autorities, one is from the chief lawer of ICE, the only telecomunications goverment company, which yes is a monopoly and as far as some people could say it is far far better then most private companies in the world. IMO the best goverment owned company I know.
Anyway the quote says something like our company must undestand times have change, but we must penalice fraud. the only link to that is that they still don't know if VoIP could be a felony or not.
THe other quote is from the Security chief, who said something like: We are going to present a plan to regulate VoIP use in Costa Rica.
On a side note, you should know that they are a lot of companies of online bets based on Costa Rica, I don't have facts but maybe many of those 25% of calls are from them, calling their customers.