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Vonage On July 1st Korea will block service because it has considered Vonage illegal
On July 1st Korea will block service because it has considered Vonage illegal in the country. This is due to Vonage not being registered with the Korean government. This is going to affect many servicemembers who use the service to keep in contact with loved ones while overseas. Can someone please email this link to Vonage as the main website is already blocked and I have not been able to access the site for 3 months:
http://www.i-mnet.com/images_in/dacom.html
Here is the email I recieved from my service provider. Thanks for any help you can provide for those of us serving our country overseas.
**Customer Notification Regarding Unlawful Voip Service**
The second largest ISP carrier in Korea, Dacom has requested that SSRT notify USFK about the following information regarding the blockage of unlawful Voip service. Dacom has officially declared that all unlawful Voip traffic will be blocked from all Dacom's network on July 1st, 2006 at 00:00am.
Due to that many Voip services are not legally authorized to provide telecommunication services in Korea and are illegally providing Voip services using major ISP carrier’s facilities, they have been declared illegal by the Korean Government.(Laws & Rules for Telecommunications No. 33” and the “Laws & Rules for Telecommunications No. 4-3, 12, 19, 59-1, 32~2). Henceforth, any unlawful Voip service that has not been authorized by the Korean Government will be terminated by other major ISP carriers in Korea as well.
Furthermore, the customers who are currently using unauthorized devices by the network operators are strongly recommended to disconnect such devices from the network immediately.
Since SSRT is well aware of the large number of subscribers of the above services in the USFK installations, SSRT requested the ISP carriers to postpone the blocking of unlawful Voip service provider several times since last year. Voip service was declared illegal since August last year in Korea. It became authorized for usage on October last year when the Korean Government registered the Voip service. But many of the Voip providing companies are not registered in Korea and the ISP carriers who believe that it's taking a negative impact on their business have decided to terminated those services.
Despite SSRT's numerous attempts to request the ISP carriers and the Korean Government to delay the blocking of unauthorized Voip services, a notice about the blockage of unlawful Voip service to be performed on July 1st, 2006 was carried out on Thursday, June 22nd. We are still in the process of delaying the 'blockage' and would like to make it clear that SSRT has no intention to block the Voip services. Not only will it hurt our business but we also realize that this will cause inconvenience to a lot of our customers as well.
The blockage of unlawful Voip services is not only related to the USFK installations but to nationwide Voip customers of both Koreans and foreigners alike. And we would like to acknowledge the fact that the blockage of unlawful Voip services is neither in any event related nor relevant to SSRT Co, Ltd. It’s being carried out by the Korean Government and the ISP carriers.
Meanwhile, SSRT is coming up with plans to eliminate the inconvenience and damages to the related customers in time of the blockage of unlawful Voip services.
We would like to recommend to the customers who have any of the unlawful Voip services to contact those Voip service providers and request them to register for legal authorizations from the Korean Government. If this will be troublesome, we suggest that you change your service to a legally authorized Voip service. SSRT is more than happy to assist you in finding a lawful Voip provider. In case, you are not certain whether your current Voip service is a legal service, please, feel free to contact or visit any SSRT Telecommunication/Mobile Center for further assistance.
Please refer to the following link: "Dacom’s Memorandum Regarding the Blockage of Unlawful Voip Services" for further information.
For any further inquiry regarding the blockage of unlawful Voip service that will take place on July 1st, 2006, please contact:
Mr. Won, Jaff [Dacom Senior Manager for Carrier Account Team]
Office Phone: 02-2089-8620
Mobile Phone: 010-5547-8682
Email: won0506@chollian.net
Ms. Huh, Miehea [Dacom Carrier Account Team]
Office Phone: 02-2089-5439
Mobile Phone: 010-8233-8091
Email: miehea@dacom.net
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• Screw SSRT, if they block my vonage service in Korea ill dump them in second.
• this pretty lame. i been here in korea over 2 months and i had this phone for 2 months
• I would doubt Vonage is going to do anything for you considering you're violating
• There is nothing Vonage can really do in this case. A foreign government &
• looks like you need to go the VPN route as well if they block access
• I was able to get into the link you posted here's what was on there.
Date
• its not ssrt doing it, its dacom who supplies the entire penn with internet. also
• This bites but it is their right. They are also blocking Packet 8 as well as LIngo
• dammit packet 8 too. how do you know that. i was just about to order that. looks like
sixpack70 posted "On July 1st Korea will block service because it has considered Vonage illegal" on 06/27/2006 |
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