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Intelligence Bureau Asks Indian Government to Block Internet Telephony Services
15 Sep 2009
The Intelligence Bureau of India has asked the communication ministry to block all internet telephony (VoIP) services to and from India until the Department of Telecom (DoT) puts in place a mechanism to track such calls.
The calls passing through the VoIP and IP route contains inadequate parameters which makes it impossible to trace the actual callers.
IB officials quoted that “As DoT had conveyed that it is not possible to mandate transmission of CLI (Caller Line Identification) from abroad, we had approached DoT to block such calls till a technical solution is found,”.
If DoT were to implement the IB directive, it will impact consumers who use internet to make extremely low cost calls to phones and free calls to computers across the globe. In addition, internet users who use voice chat facilities of companies like Skype, Google, Yahoo and Windows Live and other IMs would also be affected.
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internet telephony, intelligence bureau, department of telecom, voip
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