On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Vivek Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/21/2011 03:36 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Integrating VOIP with PRI/EPABX/PBX etc is illegal. > > Do you happen to have any references of it being illegal - specially having > it as PBX?
I am not an expert on what is legit. A stand alone PBX - no PSTN connection from *any* point in the VoIP network would be fine. A couple years ago, I had a lead for a VoIP project and the CEO of Enterux (www.enterux.com) told me clearly no PSTN hooks on the VoIP network. > From what I'm aware, the primary concept behind the law is preventing toll > bypass, which I don't think is happening in Niyaz's case as he mentioned the > calls are incoming calls. Even if it was outgoing, it was happening via the > PRI, so there also no toll bypass is happening. I don't recall which > document it was, but I interpreted it as PBX being allowed, and if the > company has multiple locations in India, then PBX over VPN was also > permitted. You have a point re: incoming calls only in this case but .... it is better to get an official approval. > I've always found VOIP in India be a gray area, and have never been able to > figure out what's legal and what's not. Would be glad if you've some > conclusive documents/links. TRAI would be the best place to get answers. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
