The consolidated word "VOIP" stands for "Voice Over Internet Protocol". Please see some details about VOIP in the following wikipedia link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP
IEEE (International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) was working in developing the VOIP protocol from long time ago, to be able to work on the LAN (Local Area Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), and World Wide Area Network (Internet) such that the Voice Signals (which is basically analogue in format) can be transmitted and received over the computerized digital networks (such as LAN, WAN, and Internet).
Finally, VOIP came out as an alternative to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Networks) systems. T&T of Bangladesh (Governmemnt owned), AT&T (Publicly owned) of USA are the examples of traditional PSTN systems.
In Bangladesh, T&T dictates all telephone related activities. Calls can not be originated or received out of the T&T PSTN network. However, modern technologies such as the VOIPs are not supported by the T&T. On the other hand, T&T will not improve their system introducing the VOIP transmission and reception technologies. On the ground of loosing the revenue, anyone who wants to install the infrastructure for VOIP technology is being labeled by the Government of Bangladesh as the illegal and criminal activities.
In all other countries, where VOIP is used, the user is charges a usage tax based on time or charged amount. Government makes a rule for it. Bangladesh is not doing it, stopping the innovative developments in the fields of communications, and unnecessarily harassing the innovators, for the Government's bad policy, as the stopper of innovation, and being extremely lazy in improving the effective rules and regulations, to collect the revenues and taxes for the funds of the Government.
In fact, this controversy should never be termed as "VOIP". Because the VOIP is the end user's product. That means, when a telephone user at the near end can hear the voice of the far end caller in his telephone set that is not connected to the PSTN system, rather to the Internet, is called the "VOIP". In Bangladesh, the real and actual VOIP system does not exist. Everyone either uses the T&T (quite problematic) phone or the Mobile Phone. Actually, the VOIP needs a broadband network, either through Cable-TV or through DSL to provide the ISP (Internet Service Provider). Then the VOIP service can be connected for that user by a VOIP service provider. Is this the situation that does practically work in Bangladesh right now? If not, why it is labeled as the "VOIP"?
In fact what the communications industries are doing in Bangladesh, are using internet as the transmission networks for voice transmission either to T&T end users or the mobile phone users, mainly because of the scarcity of the network provider. Since there is no existing Government regulations how the taxes to be paid or or revenues to be collected for the Government, it became a serious deadlock between the Government of Bangladesh and the industries working for innovations. Now the military Government being a dictator, just trying to make them hero, engaging into this controversial matter, and not giving the opportunity to the innovators to develop the country.
By my opinion, T&T and the Government of Bangladesh as a whole are really responsible for this scandal. They must come very fast forward and set the rules how to pay the taxes such that the Government can collect revenues from these industries, where T&T is incapable of providing the services.
Innovation should not be stopped, rather to accelerate whatever way it can be and only then the nation will improve. Otherwise, the simple red tapping and laziness of the Government entities will just keep a nation deplorable, unworthy, backward, chaotic.
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From: wouldbemahathirofbd@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:29:32 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] Professor Yunus is expected to lead by deeds, not words
| What our susil media alo- star says about their once their cohort in search of honest and competent candidate? For years now, a number of individuals and organisations, including some leading private-sector mobile phone operators, have been involved in the illegal use of voice over internet protocol for international call transmission, depriving the public exchequer crores of takas in unpaid revenues. Hence, we have always advocated for stringent governmental measure against such malpractices and welcomed it when the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission waged a war, so to speak, against both big- and small-time VoIP operators. We were hardly surprised when such leading telecom companies as the GrameenPhone, which happens to be the largest mobile phone operator in the country, and the Telecom Malaysia International (Bangladesh) আল্লাহ যাকে যখন ইচ্ছা ক্ষমতা দান করেন,মাইনাস টু ফরমুলায় তাই হাসেন http://www.microsco |
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