In a bid to curb grey traffic, an operating system is being designed to collect and analyse data from various sources and provide effective solutions to reduce revenue loss.
The system will consist of four major building blocks whose purpose will be to collect data, analyse it, report in in a meaningful format and use the results to monitor the traffic. The system will be installed at the Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE).
National ICT Research and Development Fund – a subsidiary of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication – is executing the project in collaboration with Comsats Institute of IT (CIIT), Islamabad at a cost of Rs13.51 million.
Officials said the project called the Automatic Monitoring and Detection System (AMDS) for grey traffic is being executed in two phases. In the first phase, training will be provided and then a real-time system will be installed at PIE.
The process will begin at the CIIT campus, after which the project will proceed towards step two when the system will be installed. After the installation, it will be tested in a real-time environment before being properly launched.
Grey routes can be identified in terminating networks. Normally, heavy load in certain network areas or short voice calls or incomplete call information indicates grey traffic. Grey telephony causes an estimated loss of over Rs3 billion annually.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2014.
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Clueless Ministry of Information & Technology needs to understand first why there is Gray traffic to begin with. Unless they know the reason for that they can't stop it.
Here is a hint for that puzzle. Pakistan has one of the highest telephone calling rates in the world. For example, from US a call to India through gray system cost around 1 to 2 cents per minute. Many companies, like Vonage now offer "unlimited" calls to India if you choose one of their plans. On the other hand calls to Pakistan are around 10 cent per minute. Go figure!
No doubt COMSATS is no.1 university in Pakistan and its gonna shine more in future.!!!