TRAI allows Internet telephony

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Telecom users will soon be able make calls from their personal computers with Internet connection to a land line or a mobile phone and vice versa, if a TRAI recommendation in this regard finds acceptance with the government.

The suggestion by the telcom regulator, if accepted, will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and may lead to fall in STD tariff.

As per the TRAI recommendations, the STD service providers would be connected to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) through public Internet for the purpose and the two service providers would have mutual agreement for the same.

The move will permit calls from personal computers to fixed line and mobile phones. At present, a voice call can travel between two computers but not from a mobile or a fixed phone. This is expected to open channels of huge revenues for ISPs.

The Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), a technical arm of Department of Telecom, will work out the number plan for the ISPs to enable them to offer telephone services.

"Telephone numbers from identified blocks shall be allocated to ISPs, Unified Access Service Providers, Basic Service Providers and Cellular Mobile Service Providers for internet telephony," TRAI said.

With a view to make Internet telephony secure, TRAI said, all ISPs interested to provide unrestricted Internet telephony would install "Lawful Interception" equipment.
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Source : TRAI allows Internet telephony; STD tariffs may drop

Hope the government is independent enough to accept these recommendations ..... there are bound to be a few "interests" at stake though, and that might cause them to reject the suggestions.
 
All types of computer to computer voice/video chat is legal . What's illegal right now is connecting ip network and a pstn one . When this gets completely implemented, you will be able to make ultracheap calls to india from anywhere around the world , let alone local std rates and we may see vonage type services in india too . Surely process will be slow and bsnl/mtnl will be given more advantages compared to private players .
 
Folks:

TOI: Telecom rates set to drop up to 80%

New Delhi: Thought telecom tariffs couldn’t get any cheaper? Think again. Soon, you could be calling friends abroad for just Re 1 to 2 per minute, a sharp drop from the present average of Rs 7/minute. National long distance rates could drop to 30-50 paise per minute, against Rs 1-2 at present. And local calls could be virtually
free, at just about 30 paise per minute, against today’s Re 1.
But how has this stunning reduction become possible? Consumers have Trai to thank. The telecom regulator has thrown open the voice market to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), ushering in the promise of between 40% and 80% lower voice tariffs. With this, Trai has — in a single stroke — destroyed some of the last regulatory barriers to advanced and cheaper technology.
But hold on a moment. Couldn’t you already make calls over the Internet? Yes, but only over Net-enabled PCs. You couldn’t terminate Internet telephony calls on fixed and mobile networks and vice-versa.
Trai has now made it possible to do so. And with ISPs set to hammer rates down to a new low, mobile service providers will be left with little choice but to follow suit.
It gets better. All call charges today include a 30 paise interconnection cost (fixed tariff paid by an operator when he uses another operator’s network for his customers). Trai is revisiting these rates as well, and any reduction will also be passed on to consumers, which means even lower tariffs.

~LT
 
shashank_re said:
But what about the call quality?Will it be as good as regular phone call ?
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Have you received the phone calls from US..

most of them are routed through VOIP ...
and in other countries people are using this technology for ages....
 
shashank_re said:
But what about the call quality?Will it be as good as regular phone call ?
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It depends on the software u use + the ISP ...

its more of the software thing cause ur voice does not directly go to the recipient it gets compressed so that the transfer rate is faster ... !! same vice versa when it comes to VOIP

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hope this TRAI thing gives us better internet connection too !
 
Damn they should have done this ages ago, still Better late then never

Now you can make payment for VOIP in INR instead os USD as earlier i used to do with skype.
 
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