The government "is not going to issue VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) licences until 2008,"

SKYPE is effectly badly!!

Learn how China intercepts and censors online content

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/

Translation:

"We haven't yet figured out how to spy on VOIP calls yet, and we don't dare allow an uncensorable form of communication--not if our regime is to survive!"