Dear AP the thing that you mention is indeed illegal and small or big fry BSNL / VSNL is looking out to catch them.
VoIP is legal only as long as the following is done. 1. Inside an organisation i.e. between branches of an organisation. even here you cannot interconnect a public line/ exchange with a VoIP line/exch 2. call originating from india through pc and terminating abroad. for this too only licensed players have been allowed. one of them phonewala.com you mentioned. no other VoIP calls whether STD / local /ISD are legal. you cannot terminate VoIP calls and reroute them through the PSTN lines. be careful. the Indian Telegraph act is one of the oldest laws, made in 1885. so very archaic and unreasonable but legal. regards alok > And well, as for the small print we are too small fry for VSNL to > worry about us ;-) > Anyway, VoIP is now legal, no worry there. The thing I am not sure > about is networking asterix servers across cities and then providing > calls to other cities in India at local call rates. Like for example I > put one server in Chennai and the other in Kolkata, then make it > public so that people calling to Kolkata from our shop do it at local > rate. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
