Bangladesh VoIP shutdown floods legacy telco

What's a government to do when it shuts down all the illegal VoIP shops--but discovers that the legacy telco can't handle the added traffic? That's what happening in Bangladesh. Regulators have been going through the country over the last couple of weeks shutting down all the call centers it could find. But legacy telco BTTB can handle 12.26 million minutes of overseas calls a day; when the call shops were running, international traffic hit 16 million minutes per day. Oops. A technical committee is supposed to submit findings by the end of this week about how to both protect the telco's network and revenue stream while allowing enough VoIP traffic to satisfy demand. Separately, a Bangladeshi court lifted a ban on licensing new VoIP carriers.

For more information on VoIP in Bangaldesh:
- read this article in The Daily Star
- check out this report

Related Article:
Bangladesh cracks down on illegal VoIP. Report