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New tech on cards to fetch revenues from VoIP operators

Move seen to delay VoIP legalisation

JASIM UDDIN KHAN
The government has decided to install a new technology in order to ensure revenues from VoIP operators even before legalising the much-hyped internet telephony.
It will establish common platforms in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Bogra to operate internet and VoIP services through a single channel.
The country's telecoms experts feel, however, the new measure will delay the process of legalising the voice over internet protocol or VoIP.
The decision came at a recent high-level meeting of the executive committee on information and communication technology (ICT) with Kamal Uddin Siddique, principal secretary to
the prime minister, in the chair.
"The technology will help monitor VoIP activities and calculate revenue from individual VoIP operators," a high official of the Ministry of Planning said.
The latest move to legalise the VoIP technology came nearly three years after the government at first decided to legalise the VoIP in June 2002.
The committee also formed two separate expert teams -- one will supervise the development work of the common platforms and the other will oversee the licensing process for VoIP operators.
The first team will submit a supervision report to the BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) within six months after its formation.
The aim of legalising VoIP for
private operators is to bring the charge of international call down to a fraction of the existing call rates. The VoIP technology will also facilitate PC-to-PC, PC-to-phone, phone-to-phone and phone-to-PC communications.
Many countries including India have opened up the VoIP.
Akhtaruzzaman Manju, president of Internet Service Providers' Association of Bangladesh, said the fresh move to install the new technology will definitely delay the VoIP legalisation process.
He, however, said ISPs are no more interested in VoIP due to 'unabated illegal use of the technology by telephone operators'. The government should take steps to stop illegal use of VoIP, he added.