All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] Grey telephony traffic to Pakistan

Sunday 24 March 2013

Re: [pakgrid] Grey telephony traffic to Pakistan

Wahaj sahib,

There was NO "International Clearing House (ICH) agreement". Someone in the Government choose to arbitrarily raise the tariffs without any justification. In my opinion the Government has decided to spreads its corruption tentacles to Uncle Sam and Uncle Sam (FCC-USA) has come down hard on Pakistani practice and stopped making any payments.

Time would be better spent if FIA concentrates it scarce resources on other pressing matters such as insurgency, terrorism and lawlessness in all large cities of this nation.

If the Government thinks FCC is wrong then I suggest the GoP should take the matter to WTO or World Court, or Arbitration. I would doubt they would do that.

Regards

From: Qasim Sheikh <qs358@yahoo.com>
To: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "wahaj@nayatel.com" <wahaj@nayatel.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] Grey telephony traffic to Pakistan

Dear Wahaj,

I support your effort but chances of its success are limited, reason being that most likely the person calling me using grey traffic is my close friend or relative. By using grey traffic they are saving money. Why would I help government stop my dear ones from saving money. This is the simple case of high import duties leading to smuggling. The thing to do is to bring down these official rates. My dear ones use Skype. At least in this case I am a "law abiding" citizen. Or has PTA declared skype illegal as well.

With Regards
Qasim
pk.linkedin.com/pub/qasim-sheikh/0/250/712
+923008540838 (mob)

From: Wahaj us Siraj/MGMT <wahaj@nayatel.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:48 AM
Subject: [pakgrid] Grey telephony traffic to Pakistan

Dear all,

Grey telephony is on drastically rise in Pakistan after Ministry of IT and
PTA implemented controversial International Clearing House (ICH) agreement,
under which call rates to Pakistan form overseas were drastically increased
from 01 September 2012.

If you receive a call from overseas and CLI on your cel phone is from a
local Pakistani number, it means that the call is coming from a grey
telephony route.

Cyber Crime Wing of FIA has requested for help in identifying such numbers
so that they can nab people involved in grey traffic.

If you receive a call from overseas and CLI on phone is local, kindly report
the number that appears on your CLI to amir.nazir@nr3c.gov.pk.

Kind regards....Wahaj