[wsfii-discuss] Could you please tell if VoIP is free also in those countries?

[Mahabir Pun]

Hello All;

Today I got letter from Nepal Telecom promising to provide 20 telephone
lines in Pokhara for our project. It is the city where we have base
station for the network. We will connect those telephone lines to our
Wireless network and provide telephone services to the villages in remote
areas. I know that the telephone calls will take some bandwidth of the
network, but I am sure that it still will be good enough for Internet
connection and for other purposes. If the network gets slower, we will put
better radios for the backbone. Now we have Canopies BH-20 for the
backbone.

Right now, VoIP is illegal in Nepal. Therefore I am also lobbying to make
VoIP calls free. It is because our project uses VoIP for live
tele-teaching and telemedicine purpose. We also use VoIP to connect the
call from the remote villages to landlines of Nepal Telecom to make calls
outside the network.

Could you please tell me if VoIP call is free in those countries where 2.4
GHz and 5.7 GHz bands are license free? If the government in some of the
countries have made it illegal to use, why is that.

The reason I am asking is because I want to present the government the
list of the countries where is is free.

Thanks.

Mahabir


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