Vodafone Germany to Block Skype

July 22nd, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Mobile & Telecoms

Tags: 3G, Mobile News, Skype, Vodafone, VoIP, WiFi, Wireless Content

In what has to be one of the most predictable developments, Vodafone Germany have announced that from 2007 they will be blocking VoIP calls. It won’t be long before other operators follow I think.

I think the operators are making a big mistake here and trying to ban VoIP is a bad business plan. All that will happen is people will switch to a network that does allow VoIP. I’m sure some smart MVNO will spring up to take advantage of this.

I hope Vodafone UK aren’t as short-sighted.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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1. #1

   Comment by Blog Consulting & Professional Blogging a View from the Isle on 23 July 2005:

   I had heard rumours of this little bit of short-sightedness but from Connected Internet— Vodafone Germany to Block Skype—sounds like it's for real.  This …
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   Comment by bite on 10 January 2007:

   new technology seem to have arrisen in the last couple of months. before it was quite difficult to block skype and other obfuscated traffic but recently the german company Ipoque has made a skype blocking appliance, and also the french based company Lynanda has made an opensource skype and P2P blocker. I tried it and it unfortunately works very well (check there http://www.lynanda.com/products/software-for-corporations/traffic-filtering)
   i guess other big ISPs are going to follow the same policy because in european countries, the decision comes from a independent organization
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   Comment by clc on 16 March 2007:

   Thx for the ipoque tip. I already tested lynanda and it is not only very complicated to set up, but also not very reliable in detection. Currently we are going to test packeteer. (which is very expensive) . ipoque offers a free version for evaluation, which can detect Skype and encrypted p2p very reliable. If the can really do this at wirespeed this can become an option for us.

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