Bdos: Voice IP silenced

COMPUTER users have run into a blockage on the network for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) software which allows them to make free international telephone calls, but Cable & Wireless (C&W) denies that it is responsible.

Reports to the SATURDAY SUN suggested the blockage had hit owners of Internet cafés hardest, but had also affected other Internet service providers (ISPs) who offer PC to PC chat forums.

A spokesman for Sunbeach Communications, one of the main ISPs outside of C&W itself, acknowledged there were problems and that the VoIP software seemed to have stopped working.