Alok is right on the money. A couple of years back, a few guys tried VoIP the illegal way, got caught and were imprisoned. These guys were working for some fly-by-night firm in Kolkata around the Ballygunge Circular Road.
so there, /Arin --- Alok Dugar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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
