"Salman Ansari"
"'Chairman PTA'"

Subject: FW: Permission to set up VOIP server
Date sent: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:20:11 +0500


Dear Dr. Yasin

With the USF Telecenter initiative underway and a lot of public service entities in the Private and public sector are currently using and will increasingly use the best medium for this integrated service delivery to end users. This will invariably involve VoIP – on existing platforms like Skype, IM, etc or bespoke developed software e.g. direct dial-outs from Portals to end users. All these are integral for the Service Delivery regardless of it being in the Urban or Rural Areas.

I know your very positive views on this but somehow the matter has not been fully clarified by the PTA and people are apprehensive about using a perfectly normal technological innovation One of the fears stem from Faisal’s incarceration on the ‘VoIP’issue which turned out be to be wrong on all counts. In that case PTA had incorrectly quoted the ETO so that Faisal could not get bail. In the more current time, the Cyber crime Act and its misuse is even more troubling. The cybercrime act has been now used incorrectly, to create the FIR for the Mumbai suspects for exactly the same reason.

PTA needs to come out with a clear statement which can allay the fears of innocent people who must use this without confusion.

The forwarded mail is from Dr. Shahida Saleem who is a part of growing network of Tele-medicine practitioners whose systems are usually being used to bring health facilities, diagnostics, epidemiological studies, training and referral networks, consulting etc to the remotest parts of Pakistan because of a dearth of doctors. Very integral to this is voice and voice which may also need to transit PSTN and Cellular networks to make sure remote sites and doctors can log-in on voice and audio conferencing networks.

Going forward, ALL networks in the developmental space (billions of dollars to come in from USAID, JICA, DFID, etc) will all use VoIP as an integral feature. All Telecenters (MCITs), ALL education and distance learning networks will have VoIP. More and more corporate entities will install hosted IPBX services and will transit many calls via the public internet without knowing that this is happening.

Dr. Yasin, please try to bring some sense into the narrow view of how technology is perceived. We never discussed TDM, PCM, FDM, DM, etc when we used these. VoIP is just a technology, please get this into mainstream. Ironically it already is, but is covered by unnecessary fear and trepidation, since there are mixed signals from the PTA on this issue.

The reason for making VoIP was the forbidden fruit was for limiting grey traffic – this is a lost case , however I will write separately to you on this.

Thanks and Regards

Salman

From: Shahida Saleem [mailto:shahida@.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:00 AM
To: 'Salman Ansari'
Cc: zahara@.com
Subject: Permission to set up VOIP server



Dear Salman,

Do we need formal permission from PTA to set up a VOIP server? If yes, how do we get it?

Shahida Saleem | Chairperson
021-4552179 021 455 2984
shahida@.com|www.sehatfirst.com


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From: Zahara Khan [mailto:zahara@.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:31 PM
To: shahida@sehatfirst.com
Subject: Update: Telecon with Murtaza



Dear SS

Murtaza has told me that we need permission from PTA for using VOIP server over public IP (internet). I have made an offer to him to work for us freelance to:

1) Make telehealth operational from CG/RG centers (including VOIP server setup)
2) OpenMRS implementation

He said he was also thinking on the same lines. He will be discussing the technical details with Sher Shah and get back to us tomorrow.

Zahara Khan | COO
T 021-4552984 021-4552179
zahara@.com |www.sehatfirst.com

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