Skype-In For Canada – Next Year?
The CBC is carrying a story about the Skype for iPhone application release today and contained in their article is a bit about Skype-In:
Another feature from the company, SkypeIn — which assigns users a phone number so that they can take incoming calls — is still not available in Canada. Company executives told CBC News in early 2008 that the service would be rolled out within a year, but it has still not launched here.
Part of the holdup is a regulation that requires telephone providers to support e-911 service, or “enhanced” 911, which allows emergency responders to locate the caller. Skype does not yet offer e-911.
“It’s one product that we’re constantly trying to widen with distribution. Canada happens to have more complex laws and regulations,” Yeung said. “We’re still working on it.”
Hopefully it will come sooner rather than later.

10. Sep, 2009 









