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A team of officials from the Department of Telecom (DoT) along with the Hyderabad Police and officials from Reliance Infocom busted an illegal telephone exchange operating from the Basheer Bagh area of Hyderabad. This illegal setup consisted of 31 FWT connections from Reliance and 2 FWT connection of TATA and Internet Leased link of Netlinx along with state-of-the-art communication equipments.
The modus operandi of the setup was incoming International calls were being received by the illegal setup via the Internet leased link bypassing the licensed International Call Operators. These calls were further distributed to the local public network using 31 Reliance connections and 2 TATA connections. The setup was not only causing revenue loss to the exchequer and the service provider but was also capable of posing security threat to the nation, as it was beyond the scope of legal monitoring.
The setup was located in an empty room having one partitioned cabin. There were two setups connected to the same Internet leased link, one outside the cabin and the other inside the cabin. The inner cabin setup was found in power up condition while the outer one was powered off. No telephone instrument was found connected to the FWTs, at the site for manual dialing as is required for FWT instruments thus further identifying that the source of traffic for the illegal setup used for VoIP was positively internet leased link. In this case the end user received local CLI display while receiving incoming international calls.
The Police have arrested two persons in this connection and are on look out for the third suspect who is involved in this offence. Cases against these persons have been registered under the relevant sections of Indian Telegraphs Act.
RM/AMA - 140105 Illegal
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