'Use of VoIP not legalised to protect a few IT cos'
Bdnews, Dhaka
The use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is yet to be legalised in the country protecting the interest of a few IT companies though it could pave the way for earning plenty of IT outsourcing works. IT professionals and business leaders said through legalisation of the VoIP, the government will get revenue apart from increasing the IT as well as voice services. Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) President Akhtar-uzzaman Manju said that the system would allow the country to earn about Tk 1,000 crore as foreign exchange. "We are not facilitated while the VoIP is recognised across the world," he added. It would make a field for working in the call centres and within the first two years, about one lakh employments would be ensured, he said. Eminent IT personnel and former BCS president Mostafa Jabbar said BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tareque Rahman at a NIIT branch lunching programme in Bogra in 2001declared that the VoIP would be legalised. Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia herself called for the legalisation of the VoIP at a meeting of ICT Taskforce, he said adding that both of their commitments were not translated into reality. Shoeb Chowdhury, Chief Executive officer of SkyBd, said our neighbouring countries - India and Nepal -- have been earning huge foreign currencies through the system. We would ensure government revenue by receiving outsourcing from the USA, Europe and Germany.
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