Dies stand Anfang Juni 2007 im The Register. Wir lernen…Achtung! Aufpassen!…Voice-over-IP, sprich Telefonieren über das Internet, ist auf dem Handy teuer und unsicher…jetzt kommt’s…sagt Vodafone. Bruhahaha. Genau, Vodafone. ist teuer, wenn man es über Euer Mobilfunknetz macht.

Es wird noch besser. fördert auch den Terrorismus. Genau! Böses ! Japs, ich kann nicht mehr.

Und die Vodafone-Kunden sind in den Augen von Vodafone zu doof, mit auf dem Nokia N95 zurecht zu kommen. Aua, mein Bauch…aufhöööören!

Aber lest selber, vor allem die Antwort von Aaron Powers, Vice President of Business Development, Vyke Communications PLC (einem -Anbieter), weiter unten.

Vodafone is telling customers that services are insecure – even as Sky News is reporting that calls threaten our war on terror because such calls can’t be intercepted.

Several El Reg readers have been in communication with Vodafone about their policy, and one sent us a received email from Vodafone Customer Services.

This explains that is an expensive and unsafe way to communicate. “Expensive” is certainly true, depending on the data tariff, “unsafe” should really be justified, especially with Sky News whipping up a storm about terrorists using to evade detection.

According to Sky, “police and intelligence agencies are putting huge investment into trying to crack these sorts of communications, but the challenge is formidable”.

Which comes as a surprise to operators such as Truphone which, like every other telecommunications company in the UK, is required to comply with the Interception of Communications Act 1985.

Of course, “terrorists might be using the internet to communicate” stories always go down well, but real terrorists have been using decent encryption for decades, and the security services know there are better ways of getting information.

In related news, Vodafone Australia is selling the Nokia N95 unrestricted, but its UK incarnation still considers the capabilities of that model too confusing for UK customers.

Aaron Powers in einem Brief an das Mobile Marketing Magazine:

Dear David
I would like to take this opportunity to respond, on behalf of Vyke Communications PLC, to the absurd and irresponsible claims made by Vodafone and/or Sky News concerning mobile Voice over Internet Protocol () services (see The Register article).
Specifically, these claims include the assertions that is expensive and that it may be used by terrorists to avoid detection by law enforcement.
Mobile is only expensive if a user places a mobile call using the internet connection provided by their mobile operator (e.g., from a 3G data connection). This is because of the very high tariffs charged by mobile operators in general for mobile data services. If Vodafone, for example, claims that mobile is ‘expensive’ for the user when used via the Vodafone mobile data network, it is because Vodafone’s mobile data network charges are expensive. I hope that, like me, you appreciate the irony of Vodafone warning its customers about its own tariff structure.
The Vyke Mobile IP service, like that of many of our competitors in the Mobile sector, is focused on the use of wi-fi to circumvent the mobile operator’s network entirely. When used in this manner, Vyke’s Mobile IP service offers tremendous cost savings for the user compared to typical mobile operator calling rates. In this case, the only charges that will apply to a Vyke Mobile IP user will be those applied by Vyke and the user’s cost of accessing the internet via his or her wi-fi network.
Stating that services are unsafe and that they may be used by terrorists to avoid detection by law enforcement is, at best, irresponsible. In Vyke’s opinion, this attempt to associate public fears over the threat of terrorism with a new and beneficial technology amounts to nothing less than scare mongering.

Sincerely,

Aaron Powers
Vice President of Business Development, Vyke Communications PLC

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