A local Indian daily,The Hindu reported that USA wants India to remove the stringent regulations over VOIP. The news in summary says that, VoIP (voice over internet protocol) "is not a new kind of telecom service but a whole new frontier in communications'' requiring a "new forward-looking framework'' and not mere a "reflexive application of legacy telecom regulations.'
USA has asked United States Trade Representative (USTR) to work for removal of "stringent'' restrictions imposed by India.
The VON Coalition said that to protect local exchange carriers (ILECs) and interexchange carriers (IXCs) from losing revenue, TRAI had established stringent rules prohibiting VoIP providers from directly interconnecting to the PSTN to terminate calls, and specifically prohibited any VoIP provider from terminating calls to the Indian PSTN, whether to a landline or mobile operator. VoIP could not be used to access India's traditional telephony devices "thereby curbing the growth of VoIP and limiting the potential of the technology to expand communications opportunities.''
I have covered this issue in one my earlier post about why VOIP can't be FREE to india if you are using any legal VOIP service. The indian government just favoring the local telcos such as BSNL, MTNL and now Reliance & bharati who want to loot you for receiving calls on your landline/Mobile.
This practice is worst than pathetic and unfortunately the indian government is protecting the interest of telco's instead of people. Its very unlikely that they will listen to USA's appeal, since there are million of dollars at stake and everyone wants that easy money.
Imagine if you are getting millions of dollars for just terminating a call? Isnt it like a golden hen? Who wants to cut it? Definitely not the Indian telco's.
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