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  Blatant Coward (profile), 23 Mar 2010 @ 1:38am

  
  

  This just in...

  In a follow up interview National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) released the following guideline. "If what you are doing does not make us money, it is illegal, and your mother would be very ashamed."

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  KEYBORED, 23 Mar 2010 @ 5:29am

  
  

  Re: This just in...

  Excellent comment. Very funny.

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  mike allen (profile), 23 Mar 2010 @ 2:09am

  
  

  interesting

  must get skype on my mobile before the Digital econimy bill becomes law in UK

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  John Martin (profile), 23 Mar 2010 @ 2:30am

  
  

  mobile monitoring

  Egypt is also really interested in not having international communications which originate inside the country that are not able to be monitored, particularly on the mobile networks. Mobile traffic is monitored in Egypt. That is the primary reason for this ban. People have been using Skype and other VoIP for a long time in Egypt, but it has only been in the past several years that the mobile networks have been capable of supporting it, and its use is at an all-time high right now.

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  Haywood (profile), 23 Mar 2010 @ 3:38am

  
  

  Sounds unenforceable

  If the problem is that they can't track it, what is to stop anyone from just doing it anyhow. When Skype is outlawed only outlaws will have Skype

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  Txknight (profile), 23 Mar 2010 @ 4:53am

  
  

  Not new

  The same is true in Korea, Skype is not allowed there, but folks still use it

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  Mle, 23 Mar 2010 @ 4:56am

  
  

  No it's pretty easy to understand

  If you are using 3g to connect to the Internet , no skype (paying mobile company for Internet)
  If the Internet is coming fom a fixed landline, even if it goes through wifi router- skype ok. (paying dsl company for Internet)
  
  It's pretty straight foward, even if the reasoning behind it is not.

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  Freedom, 23 Mar 2010 @ 5:29am

  
  

  Yeah ... but...

  >> It's pretty straight foward, even if the reasoning behind it is not.
  
  Okay, how about this?
  
  What if I use my 3G connection via a VPN Tunnel to my office which then goes out via a hard line?
  
  What if I'm connected to a land line but I VPN over to a router that uses 3G ultimately for Internet/VoIP traffic?
  
  Freedom

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  mle, 23 Mar 2010 @ 6:00am

  
  

  Re: Yeah ... but...

  Based on what I know about this
  
  3g to vpn to hardline- ok, as the data would appear as regular traffic, not VOIP to the ISP.
  
  Is the 3g router inside the country or outside? Inside Egypt probably not ok, outside, most likely ok, because Egyptian mobile companies really have no say over your use of other country's 3g network.

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  Pool Tables For Sale, 18 Dec 2010 @ 7:43pm

  
  

  Re: Yeah ... but...

  Yeah, a little bit confusing between mobile internet and fixed internet.

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  Premjith, 23 Mar 2010 @ 5:40am

  
  

  Just seems in future

  Skype is very pretty straight foward...interesting to be that a 3G connection need that

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  bob, 23 Mar 2010 @ 5:58am

  
  

  Ten Dollars A Minute

  That's what I paid a few times in a couple of places overseas back in the 80's and early 90's, I would have loved Skype back then.
  
  I can see why the official state owned Egyptians would be upset by it.

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  Anonymous Coward, 23 Mar 2010 @ 6:05am

  
  

  Egypt is a police state.

  Egypt is a police state, pure and simple.
  Apparently they don't have the tech to monitor Voip over 3g, sucks to be them.

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  Hephaestus (profile), 23 Mar 2010 @ 6:50am

  
  

  and of course ....

  Of course there will be an escalation and someone will write an app to replace skype that you cant tell is VOIP. Every mobile phone today has an SDK for app development. Making this ban worthless in the long run.

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  Sir William Wallace, 23 Mar 2010 @ 1:06pm

  
  

  Freedom!

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  Anonymous Coward, 24 Mar 2010 @ 12:26am

  
  

  Another player see it's lunch being eaten by technological progress so stifle that progress by all means necessary. God forbid companies should actually have to innovate instead of running to the courts when the world makes things that they don't like.

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  Rene, 28 Dec 2013 @ 11:39pm

  
  

  vpn rules

  I have used vpnservice for a long time and it works fine in my mobile and also computer
  
  http://strongvpn.com/aff/scripts/click.php?a_aid=skype&a_bid=ca14b048&chan=skype
  
  Easy installation and nice support.

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