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

Mon Jul 31 10:09:55 UTC 2006

Mahabir,

In Georgia, this is former Soviet Union Rebublic, 2.4 Ghz if unlicensed
and VoIP is also free, only license you have to obtain is for telephone
numbers pool, if you want to make a commercial service.

Regards,
Zviad

Mahabir Pun wrote:
> 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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