If this report out of the EU is true the impact on global VoIP is immense.
Take Skype for example. Right now get an IP connection, use Skype to call anywhere and talk to anyone. Same for Gizmo, Yahoo or any soft client service. Toss in a little port blocking, some packet shaping, add some IP address tracking and you have 1984 in 2006.
More importantly it shows that governments, telcos and likely the investment communities are all very interlaced.