[ISN] IB calls for block of VoIP services citing security concerns

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TeleGeography's CommsUpdate
15 September 2009

India's Intelligence Bureau (IB) has reportedly called on the Ministry 
of Communications and Information Technology to block all internet 
telephony services in and out of the country until the Department of 
Telecommunications (DoT) is able to track such calls, the Economic Times 
reports. The IB claims that India currently lacks the necessary 
technology to track VoIP calls, and argues that this presents a national 
security issue, with the bureau noting: 'In the absence of Caller Line 
Identification (CLI) parameters of calls landing from abroad, it is next 
to impossible to identify the country of location of the caller.

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