France to investigate Skype over telecom operator status

The French telecoms regulator ARCEP said it had asked prosecutors to investigate Microsoft’s Skype for failing to register as a telecom operator.

Skype has not complied with the regulator’s repeated requests to register as an “electronic communications operator”, ARCEP said in a statement.

The regulator said that since Skype let users make voice calls to fixed and mobile numbers in France and around the world, it had an obligation to allow emergency calls and permit legal interception of calls when required.

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