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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: TTY phone fraud and abuse
Thus spake "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[email protected]> > There is another class of people who route calls out from the USA to > India (or elsewhere) using VOIP, terminate the calls at an unauthorized > (that is, not run by a licensed telco) exchange in india, and then route > the calls out through the local pstn or mobile network. > > Quite a few of the "call $asian_country for cheap" phone cards you find > at ethnic grocery stores seem to work on these lines. > > The local telco doesn't see a red cent of any settlement charges when > this happens. Local telcos are, of course, all against this, and use > any and every excuse to get these exchanges busted - a procedure that > typically involves having the local police raid the exchange. One method that makes raids difficult is that the landing site for these calls is often a satellite dish (for the international side) combined with GSM phones (for the local side). Sure, you can cut off the GSM phones one-by-one, but new ones are cheap enough that it's like a game of whack-a-mole. S Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
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