On Monday 10 July 2006 02:43 pm, Rony wrote:
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:02:40PM +0530, jtd wrote:
Periodically u read in the papers some poor soul being arrested for running an illegal exchange. They are using voip with a gateway (several land lines connected to an epabx) to connect to local numbers. But the telcos are losing money on the international segment , money guranteed by the govt. via licence charges. So no voip gateway for connecting to local landlines. Which is what delicensing is all about.
I am thinking a situation where at least one phone line in every pstn subscriber's place is broadband enabled and is fitted with an ip phone. There is no interconnect as it is bypassed by having ip phones in every home. Will MTNL and BSNL have a problem with that and create obstacles? The calls are ip to ip only.
No. They have a problem if u have a pipe via private isp and connect it to the phone line and offer voice services.
The new mobile phones have wlan connectivity so they can use hot spots (assuming they are up in all the important places) and stay IP connected.
U cunning fellow u is catching the drift. There are wifi phones available costing about $400 the last time i checked.If the ap can be shrunk into the phone (and that should be possible real soon now) every body is a walking telco. Yipeee free yakayak will be your birth right. Unless the govt tries to protect it's and the telcos milking schemes.