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The Department of Telecom (DOT) was again successful in its series of combing operation against the illegal exchanges operating from in and around Delhi. This time the raid was made at Noida, near Delhi by the team comprising of officials from the DOT, VSNL and the Special Delhi Police. The clandestinely operated telephone exchange was used for routing incoming international calls through internet and further distributing these calls on to the local telephone network in and around Delhi. The prepaid cards available abroad, meant for making calls to India, were the source of incoming international calls.
The raid was carried out at the second floor of Awana Building located at Atta Market, Sector 27, Noida. The illegal telephone exchanged setup was equipped with sophisticated High Tech equipments. Internet leased line of M/s World Phone was also found terminated on this illegal setup. The illegal incoming international call traffic was brought through this link and 36 mobile connections of Hutch and 19 mobile connection of Airtel were being used to terminate these calls as local calls in the Public Switching Telecom Network (PSTN) network in and around Delhi.
It may be recalled that Internet telephony is permitted in the country only on PC mode i.e. PC to PC. In the instant case, it was configured using high tech equipment to bring the incoming internet call traffic and further dial using mobile connections to local PSTN number and thus terminated international call as local with Callers Line Identification (CLI) of local numbers. The offenders were thus bypassing the authorised international long distant operators and were switching these calls using this illegal telephone exchange. The Police have arrested one person in this connection and are further investigating the case to find out the involvement of any other Indian and Foreign partners.
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