On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:35:17PM +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
> VOIP market is already open and available to you to use. The reason why
> it has not proceeded well is that VOIP rates are so low that they cant
> afford to pay interconnect charges for connecting to local telcos. Each
> call minute that terminates in a local landline or cell phone in India,
> the operator gets 30 paisa. If the VOIP operator is willing to pay that
> money to the telco, they will sign an interconnect agreement (there is
> also a annual socket fee of some amount). But at the VOIP rates, it is
> not viable.
>
Hi Saswata,
Since you are into VoIP, what is the amount of KBs used per minute in a
voip conversation? Considering that MTNL and BSNL have rolled out
broadband practically all over India, suppose we have a situation where
a company is selling cheap internet phones that connect directly to the
adsl modem, if all the broadband users install this phone in their
premises, from anywhere in India they will be able to call each other as
if they are calling an MTNL or BSNL number and if other fixed line
providers like TATA, Airtel and Reliance too give broadband on their
lines, we will have a situation where all telephones are ip based. In
such a scenerio, there will be no need to make outgoing calls on the
landlines and for those whose bills run into a few thousand rupees even
for local calls, this would be a big boon. We simply pay rent and no
outgoing calls.
In this situation, will the telcos. allow this to happen? Will they
place curbs on voip usage in order to save their revenue? Does the law
have any such provision?
Regards,
Rony.
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