Rostelecom - against the FSB - Skype

A meeting of the advisory council for the communication of the FAS, in which, inter alia, the issue of the legal status of the Skype service. Managers of ... ... Revenue shortfall in the Russian telecom operators in 2011 could reach 10.5 billion rubles ...

Analysts believe that the articulated figure looks likely, but warned that the main threat to traditional operators - going full speed redistribution of long-distance market in favor of the ...

... Telecommunications market the last couple of years showed either zero or negative growth, and to blame services like Skype.

This is not the first time that representatives of the Russian telecommunications companies have expressed the view that regulation of Internet telephony. Normally this is expressed the wish that the State has paid attention to protecting the interests of subscribers, and drew attention to the shortfall in tax revenues from this type of service.



In addition, representatives of mobile companies pay attention to the officials that Skype earns in Russia and does not pay taxes here, are not invested in infrastructure. And users should be wary of providers who are not officially represented in Russia, and therefore their activities are not controlled, so that the interests of subscribers are not protected.

In Eugene Tsarev, an expert in the field of personal data and current information security, its own version of this concern: «Skype is very good encrypts the traffic between two clients, so listen to it does not make much sense. However, the ability to record the talks do have. The most logical and well- known method is to introduce a Trojan on the computer of a user. The Trojan is able to record the talks and / or forward the decrypted traffic to another machine ... He believes that any restriction or prohibition of the use of Skype will not work. Because of technical capability to stop the use of Skype in Russia there is only an administrative tool, which in this case does not work. ... In particular, I know of for-profit companies, and even the administration of a large city that actively use Skype and give very favorable reviews of the results of the use of ...

Precedents for the fight against IP-telephony services in recent years have been noted in other countries. China has banned the use of IP-telephony, including using Skype, for the reason that Skype services were very active in the state to attract customers of telephone companies providing regular telephone.

IPhone users in Canada is also faced with a ban on the use of services, Skype, since, according to Canadian law, the telecommunications operator shall at any time in order to locate the caller's security, and IP- connection is not provided for determining numbers.

The two largest UK mobile operator Orange and O2 in this year appealed to the Nokia with the requirement to remove Skype from new devices N97, or they simply refuse to sell them. Most operators in the U.S. also block Skype calls through their network, leaving users with only Wi-Fi.

Most popular phone calls over the Internet, and attended to the Italian police. The guards are alarmed members of criminal syndicates for their negotiations are increasingly using Skype, to confuse the investigation. Encryption system used in this computer program is not revealed by developers, which greatly complicates the work of law enforcement.

Commented Julia Fedorova, an analyst at iKS-Consulting.

The volume of traffic through Skype is really growing, but it is impossible to estimate its increase since the company does not provide such data. How much money is lost through the fault of Rostelecom Skype, knows neither we nor the company itself.

The only thing we can say - Rostelecom falling incomes, and other traditional fixed-line telecommunications in total revenues from providing long distance services in favor of mobile operators and in favor of IP-telephony operators. In this situation, it is unclear why it was fought Rostelecom on this internet service, and not on the same cellular operators, which have recently revised their policy on long-distance and international services, reduced prices. As a result, customers for calls to other cities and countries have become more mobile phones.

It must be remembered that Rostelecom is an affiliate of state-owned company, and these claims may have a different, non-profit, motivated. It's no secret that Skype would like to, but can not control our intelligence services - that, perhaps, due to the continuing attacks on him.



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