Press Trust of India Posted online: Friday, March 15, 2002 at 1822 hours IST
New Delhi, March 15: The government on Friday decided to allow Internet telephony from April 1, 2002.
Accepting the recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the government has allowed voice communication over computers using telephone, an official release said in New Delhi.
The customers of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) would be able to avail this service from their Personal Computers (PCs) capable of processing voice signals or other IP based customer premises equipment.
The services would be from PC to PC (both within as well as outside India), PC to telephone (PC in India to telephone outside India) and IP based H.323/sip terminals in India to similar terminals both in India and abroad, employing IP addressing scheme of 'IANA'.
