The Hindu Business Line : DoT sets up monitoring cells to check illegal ILD calls

THE Department of Telecom has set up Vigilance Telecom Monitoring Cells at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad to detect the illegal routing of long distance calls.

These monitoring stations will also ensure that the licence conditions are fully complied with by long distance operators.

The move comes in the wake of alleged illegal routing of long distance calls by Reliance Infocomm.

Illegal calls are those where the receiver of the call sees only a local or national number while the call is originated from outside India. To facilitate the general public to give information about the grey calls, DoT has set up toll free numbers: 1600-110-420 or 011-2373-1100 where a subscriber can report such illegal calls.

DoT said that it had intensified surveillance activities and so far 33 cases of illegal exchanges have been detected and busted successfully in various parts of the country, this year.

Apart from slapping a criminal case against the offenders, the Government has seized the equipment and recovered the money that the exchequer might have lost owing to the illegal routing. "While the DoT is taking necessary action to detect the grey market operation, it is also seeking cooperation of the general public to make this drive against the unscrupulous elements successful, by volunteering themselves to report such types of incidents immediately, if they happen to come across," an official statement said. Though the calls made through such illegal means were of poor speech quality, even then these calls bring heavy loss of revenue to the Government and service providers.

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