Friday, December 2, 2011

Committee investigates illegal VoIP

The Bangladeshi government has formed a new committee to investigate illegal voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) call termination, which it suspects is behind a ‘huge’ drop in international incoming call revenues of state-run Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL). The six-member committee, led by the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC), will investigate whether any international gateway, interconnection exchange or international internet gateway is linked with unlicensed VoIP call termination and if so, what to do to combat the practice. A government official told bdnews24.com that ‘most’ of the illegal calls were received by telephone numbers on the network of state-owned mobile operator Teletalk, and that BTCL's international gateway was being used for their routing


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OVETEL Committee investigates illegal VoIP

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