On Sunday 09 July 2006 23:12, Rony wrote:
Since you are into VoIP, what is the amount of KBs used per minute in a voip conversation? Considering that MTNL and BSNL have rolled out broadband practically all over India, suppose we have a situation where a company is selling cheap internet phones that connect directly to the adsl modem, if all the broadband users install this phone in their premises, from anywhere in India they will be able to call each other as if they are calling an MTNL or BSNL number and if other fixed line providers like TATA, Airtel and Reliance too give broadband on their lines, we will have a situation where all telephones are ip based. In such a scenerio, there will be no need to make outgoing calls on the landlines and for those whose bills run into a few thousand rupees even for local calls, this would be a big boon. We simply pay rent and no outgoing calls.
In this situation, will the telcos. allow this to happen? Will they place curbs on voip usage in order to save their revenue? Does the law have any such provision?
Rony...why do you think they are not giving good data services? This is what they are afraid of and its not that their broadband services will compromise their national traffic. More importantly their international traffic will drop drastically. Hence their major revenue source will be destroyed. Thus we need a pure ISP and not a telco doubling up as an ISP.