I have a question which hopefully somebody can answer.
Terminating a VoIP call in TDM is illegal in India ( if you don’t have the license to do it). Question is does this hold good for a 3pcc? ( Third party call control) as well. I will discuss sometime later this day ( when I write the summary for Proto Day 2) the reason why this cropped up.
Basically, let’s say that I have a Soft PBX making calls to two mobile endpoints and then connecting them ( A typical 3pcc call). Is this legal in India? The reasoning behind banning the VoIP termination on TDM was that the existing licensed vendors were loosing out which would make sense in this case as well. So is there a legal section that bans this as well?
Anybody with views on this?
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
3pcc is nothing but two calls that are known to be associated for the involved parties. So it is sufficient to see whether the two calls are legal, taken one at a time. I don’t think the regulation needs to address 3pcc specifically.
By the way I take exception to your statement that VoIP call in (sic) TDM is illegal in India. It is akin to saying that owning a car is illegal in US (if you do not have registration papers for it). This is what I would have said: Terminating VoIP calls to Indian PSTN must be either at the International gateway exchanges or if it is done nationally, then it should be done by licensed operators).
My previous attempt to enter a comment apparently failed. Hence the second try.
From an external point of view, 3pcc is nothing more than two calls that are related for the involved parties. So to determine the legality of 3pcc, isn’t it sufficient to determine whether the two calls are legal taken one at a time?
By the way, I take exception to your statement that “Terminating a VoIP call in TDM is illegal in India”. It is akin to saying that car ownership is illegal in US (if you do not have registration papers). I prefer to state it differently: VoIP calls have to terminate either at the International gateway exchanges or licensed operators can terminate it at local tandem exchanges.
Aswath,
Thanks for the replies. I understand you rpoint that if the calls taken one at a time are illegal, so should the 3pcc calls as well. But my question was more in the lines of whether is there an explicit law that covers 3pcc or is it a grey area that is based upon people’s surmises and conjectures.
Gokul
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