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BTTB smothers VOIP

No more voice mail, fax, phone on the Net

By Mustak Hossain
The BTTB has restricted at least four popular ways of Internet communications such as Voice Mail. Fax through Internet and Net to Phone calls and Fax over Internet Protocol (FOIP), sources concerned said.
Under these four facilities, an Internet user can make international phone calls only by logging °n with the Internet Service Provider's (ISP) server just spending Tk 2 to 3.5 per minute.
Using similar tools, he can send an Internet fax at the same cost while BTTB charges at least Tk 90 per minute for international calls depending on distance. the sources said.
BTTB is facing threats from Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), a system used by ISPs to connect international numbers by using their VSAT directly without going through BTTB's conventional lines to evade its
bill.
BTTB has been incurring a revenue loss of Tk 2.500 crore a year after illegal Introduction of VOIP, official sources said.
VOIP is an emerging tech-nology and an excellent cost-effective service, one source said.
Using a contractual loophole." Grameen Phone (GP) has introduced nationwide dialing system at a flat rate of Tk 6.0 per minute, a senior BTTB official said. For this. BTTB has been incurring a huge loss of revenue from its Nation Wide Dialing (NWD) calls.
The ministry concerned is likely to ask for clarification from GP regarding its nationwide service, the official said.
GP officials however said they have built their own 'cell-to-cell network for the nationwide communication and it is provided in the agreement
signed with every mobile phone operators.
Cellular phone operators and ISPs, at a recent meting with Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Centre (HFC). a government project on telecom development, made some recommendations.
These are: Amending the licensing rule for cellular operators to include data service. Providing international access through nigh speed optical fibre submarine cables, removing anomalies in the government circular on VSAT and allowing ISPs and others concerned to offer VOIP service They also suggested that all ISPs be inter -connected through a common platform, country domain for Internet service introduced immediately and others be allowed to use railway optics fibre