[69454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TTY phone fraud and abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Apr 12 04:07:07 2004
In-Reply-To: <011601c4203d$734d34b0$6401a8c0@stephen>
Cc: "<nanog@merit.edu>" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:03:26 +0200
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 12-apr-04, at 5:06, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> The local telco doesn't see a red cent of any settlement charges when
>> this happens.
We all feel very sorry for them, I'm sure.
>> Local telcos are, of course, all against this, and use
>> any and every excuse to get these exchanges busted - a procedure that
>> typically involves having the local police raid the exchange.
> One method that makes raids difficult is that the landing site for
> these
> calls is often a satellite dish (for the international side) combined
> with
> GSM phones (for the local side).
Wow, VoIP+sat+GSM, that must add up to close to 1500 ms delay! That
can't be any fun.
