Philippines government told the local telecom operators to integrate with VOIP system.
The National Economic and Development Authority has asked the National Telecommunications Commission to compel interconnection between telecommunication companies and providers of voice over Internet protocol technology.
Probably the hottest news in the APAC space for VOIP. Especially, a thumbs up to the VOIP companies struggling to provide VOIP services at low cost or FREE to those million of migrants living in Singapore, Hong Kong and other APAC countries.
Due to this huge population living abroad, most of the telecommunication earnings are accounted for overseas calls. Mostly incoming, telecom operators get a good pie while terminating the calls in phillipines.
I have noted this alternative in yesterday's article and this could be a model to go ahead with countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri lanka who are very much on traditional telecom lines and have a huge growth potential for VOIP.
Recently, India however going agaisnt market practices supposedly regulate routing FREE VOIP calls to normal PSTN landlines/mobile in india. In India, There are lot of intermediate companies who charge you or your peer for connecting a call to india however they dont pay the access charge in reality. That results in giving you a cheap call but a definate loss to MTNL/BSNL, the biggest telecom providers in india.
However VOIP call does work (As of today). I made several calls yesterday using jajah.
I am sure that this news will be eye-opener to other countries and this model will be implemented soon by everyday.
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