VOIP in Indian Sub continent-A Parody of Regulations

The recent VOIP regulatory changes in bangladesh and it's overall impact on its neighbors such as India & Pakistan is definitely a long lasting one. When the world is moving towards a FREE VOIP, the indian sub-continent just thinks the opposite.

Recently, Bangladesh cracked down on illegal VOIP and they are now pointing fingers at the foreign VOIP operators for that racket. WOW. Thats like blaming the VOIP providers to cover their own a$$. I wonder what they were doing when these illegal operators started operating? Of course, its important to cut down the illegal operators. However, Whats legal and whats illegal? Who are honest with their customers?

If companies such as Reliance, BSNL/MTNL, charges a VOIP provider to terminate calls to India. Can that be classified as Legal service, perhaps yes, coz the TRAI allows them to do so. However is that really a "Honest service". If you can terminate national calls within India for FREE, why not an international call? Cmon, who pays for receiving a Call in this world?

However in Indian sub-continent, telecom operators care less about people. They are more concentrating on making money which they perhaps don't deserve. Unfortunately, the government ain't doing much about it or they are told to keep quiet. You know what i mean, don't you? This won't change unless the government puts some pressure on this fascist telecom operators to quit their plans and provide an honest service.

One of the main reason, illegal service ever exist, because they ain't legal. If something is legal, why would someone use a illegal service. Relate this to anything in real life and you will notice the same. VOIP call termination charges are completely irrelevant. If companies eradicate them, who will use that small time illegal voip operator for making or receiving calls?

Its time for the Indian sub-continent to balance out the "VOIP minutes" . Charge for outbound traffic and give FREE Inbound traffic should be the key to eliminate illegal VOIP providers. This will not only lead to more revenues but streamline future VOIP growth in a better way.