It would be great if regulators (and everyone else) would understand how VPN technology changes everything. It is no longer possible to determine if bits are voice, or data, or pornography, or political speech, or financial transactions, or music, or television, are long distance, local, international, or whatever. Any kind of regulatory structures that make these distinctions (usually in the interest of dreaming up some new "category" of service to tax) are doomed. The only way to continue this obsolete regulatory framework is to outlaw cryptography (which has been tried but that has failed too).

Whenever I hear of a country granting a "license" to somebody for something like an "international gateway" and a different "license" at a different tax burden for an "internet gateway" I just can't believe what I'm hearing.

It is like listening to people talk about how the earth is flat.