[Asterisk-biz] VOIP in India

[John gerlich]

You are correct about it being only TDM to VoIP type connections. My
original answer was to the message asking about anyone interested in
starting VoIP services to India. I may have assumed incorrectly that they
were talking about TDM termination in India. There have been other recent
request for DIDs in India.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Lykens
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:41 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] VOIP in India

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:32:35 -0500, John gerlich <jgerlich at verizon.net>
wrote:

> VoIP in India is illegal. The rules are strict and prohibit phone to phone
> use of VoIP both in country and internationally. The co-location that we
had
> located our VXML servers in India had it's telephone connectivity
terminated
> by the Telco because of a co-located customer doing VoIP. We did manage to
> get the Telco to reactivate our service for a period of 2 weeks while we
> found another facility.

It is not VoIP itself that is illegal; I had been running a TDM
private network to India since 1993 and upgraded it to VoIP in 2000.
Local telecom/government is only interested in you not bypassing them
and we were often checked to make sure we were not interconnecting our
private network to the local PSTN, even with only one phone line.

Like any government run monopoly, they simply want their share.

Liberalization is coming but I don't know how long it will be until it
reaches the kind of playing field we enjoy in the US or even Western
Europe.
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