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VoIP Licences For All In Bangladesh |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Monday, 05 March 2007 |
After
spending the last few months hauling illegal VoIP operators out into
the open and into the courts, Bangladeshi bureaucrats could be on the
verge of granting wholesale approval for the technology.
According to this report a committee of senior government representatives has recommended that licences for Voice over IP be granted to all
the country's operators including mobile and fixed line phone providers and Internet
Service Providers.
The
seven-member technical committee submitted a nine-point
recommendation to Post and Telecommunications Adviser Mirza Azizul
Islam at his ministry office, says the report.
The
recommendations are meant to overcome the country's "crisis in overseas telecommunications" and suggest continuing VoIP operations through the
existing data
gateway of theBTTB submarine cable network.
In
fact the technical committee says new equipment is needed within two
months to boost capacity and suggested enhancing the BTTB international
telephone circuit
capacity by "introducing 3,000 more circuits in addition to the
existing
11,000 circuits within shortest possible time and another 24,000 within
next three months to ease the current international call congestion,
said the newspaper report.
However,
it did not look favourably on those previously using VoIP to circumvent
the licensed telecommunications operations in the country and
recommended they should be identified and punished.
The
committee was formed on February 5, this year in the wake of officials
and police shutting down a large number of illegal VoIP operations and
subsequently putting significant pressure on the country'sill-equiped international PSTN network.
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