Yahoo! gets green signal from Indian government for VoIP services

Source: voipcentral.org

The government of India has permitted California-based Internet giant Yahoo! to offer VoIP services for the Indian users of its Instant Messenger.

Although, Yahoo! has a strong base in India for its enormous web-based services like mail, searching and portals through its Yahoo! India, the company has decided to form a special company, Yahoo Internet Communication India to bring VoIP services, a spokesperson of Yahoo! India explained.

India is now a potential market for VoIP. With large numbers of Indians are living abroad, their families and relatives are keen to keep touch with them through VoIP service as it offers them free or inexpensive international call facilities.

On the other hand, India has experienced mushrooming growth in the number of Internet users. As per the latest count, the total number of online users in India is 37 million and the number will go on increasing in the coming days.

What is interesting to note the fact that the number of active users (people who use Internet at least once in a month) has touched to 25 million in September from 21.1 million in March 2006.

Therefore, the major Internet service providers are now betting on India for VoIP revenue. Yahoo! is the frontrunner of them. Like Yahoo, anther broadband giant AOL has also decided to launch its VoIP services and Instant Messaging in India.

Via:[Infoworld]