Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rahman chairing the meeting on grey traffic on Thursday. PHOTO: PID
ISLAMABAD: As the government continues its battle against grey traffic to bring all voice over internet protocol (VoIP) under the legal framework, the Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rahman on Thursday said that all LDIs consortium, legal voice terminating inside the country should be on standard Voip protocols for billing verification and accountability purposes in addition to a comprehensive VoIP policy.
Chairing a follow up meeting on grey traffic, she was appraised over steps taken to control illegal communication and the challenges faced. She was told that in addition to thousands of SIMs being blocked through a SIM detection system, 390,000 IP addresses had also been blocked to curb grey traffic.
She was further told that customised Virtual Protected Networks (VPNs) were being widely used for terminating grey traffic and VoIP gateway are working on dynamic IP addresses allocation.
Emphasising on the need for zero compromise on legal framework for telecom business, and on financial loss to the exchequer, it was agreed in the meeting that devices associated with suspected IP addresses should be identified through IPDRs and radius information and subsequently blocked by the service provider.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) will be responsible for formulating a comprehensive VoIP policy framework to handle the issue in view of the newly emerging VoIP trends to further mitigate grey traffic.
Further, PTA, in collaboration with FIA, will continue to raid illegal activities and take it to logical conclusion, Rahman stressed.
Federal Secretary for IT Akhlaq Ahmad Tarar, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Ismail Shah, member telecom and senior officials of MoIT and PTA were also present.
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What the heck is this
hunderd and thousands of people in pakistan are working on freelancing websites and are using VPN'S for positive use some of them are helping their families in making their life easy
these sort of immature and useless decisions will make life difficult for those freelancing
grow up yar
focus on real issues UK, USA have given access to almost every VPN and we are not better than them in IT field
stoping internet and creating more communication problems for common man..it is not the right solution.improve PTA efficiency and make strict rules for telecom companies which issue unregistered sim.world is now standing on 4G AND we are suffering from consequences of 2G ...afsos
Law and order situation requires more to do... If you do analysis the crime rate in Pakistan was not such high as this is now because of wireless communication... Companies to make money issued Sims without verification to boost their sales with minimum barriers... Now is the time PTA should take serious Action and start verifying all Sims issued from day first till now... And if they found any unverified SIM operational they should fine to network carrier... Gray trafficking is important issue but not as important as law and order due to investors and businessman's are fleeing country because of security threats kidnappings and ransom demands (Mostly carried through unverified sims)...
Please do not use Islamabad red zone only as an experience while making country decision consider every part of Pakistan Karachi, Peshawar, Baluchistan.. etc..
It is all about money. They want to invent ways to make life of common people difficult while taking care of their personal benefits.
First you-tube, then this. Seriously, do Pakistani govts always work for people or against them ?
They've blocked CDNs like fastly.com. All major sites rely on CDNs to serve static content. Some of the sites that are affected are this very site, github, addthis, disqus and sub domains of python.org. This is having wide ranging consequences on our ability to use the Web.