BayanTel wants outbound access to PLDT network
Bayan Telecommunications, Inc. wants the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. to allow its legitimate subscribers to make outbound calls to PLDT’s network.
“We are presently encountering inaccessibility problems when calling the PLDT network . . . outbound calls are currently blocked by PLDT,” Marvic H. Molina, BayanTel’s head for International Business and Carriers Markets, said in a letter to the National Telecommunications Commission.
Molina said the blocking was initiated by PLDT owing to the presence of monitored ISR (international simple resale) or bypass traffic from certain BayanTel local exchange carrier (LEC) numbers.
ISR is a method of routing and completing international long-distance calls using lines, cables, antennae, and/or air wave frequency which connect directly to the local or domestic exchange facilities of the country where the call is destined.
Molina said PLDT started monitoring ISR activities in March and noticed the number of fraud incidences have increased to 251. “The reason being we have encountered a new type of fraud that our existing antifraud machines and capabilities are not yet prepared to address. The fraud originated from certain cloned units of our CDMA [code division multiple access] phone sets,” she added.
Molina, however, explained that BayanTel stopped the sale of this particular device and initiated enhancements in the security features of all units in the market.
She said BayanTel’s issue with PLDT is that it is blocking the latter’s entire office codes instead of specific suspected numbers. “This is uncalled for and goes against the prescribed procedure agreed upon by the parties in addressing these activities. More importantly, it extremely affects thousands of our legitimate LEC and corporate legitimate numbers,” Molina explained.
In 2005, BayanTel has a total of 227,075 subscribers, or a 6.74-percent market shares. While PLDT has 2.043 million users with a market shares of 60.70 percent.
--Darwin G. Amojelar - Manila Times
“We are presently encountering inaccessibility problems when calling the PLDT network . . . outbound calls are currently blocked by PLDT,” Marvic H. Molina, BayanTel’s head for International Business and Carriers Markets, said in a letter to the National Telecommunications Commission.
Molina said the blocking was initiated by PLDT owing to the presence of monitored ISR (international simple resale) or bypass traffic from certain BayanTel local exchange carrier (LEC) numbers.
ISR is a method of routing and completing international long-distance calls using lines, cables, antennae, and/or air wave frequency which connect directly to the local or domestic exchange facilities of the country where the call is destined.
Molina said PLDT started monitoring ISR activities in March and noticed the number of fraud incidences have increased to 251. “The reason being we have encountered a new type of fraud that our existing antifraud machines and capabilities are not yet prepared to address. The fraud originated from certain cloned units of our CDMA [code division multiple access] phone sets,” she added.
Molina, however, explained that BayanTel stopped the sale of this particular device and initiated enhancements in the security features of all units in the market.
She said BayanTel’s issue with PLDT is that it is blocking the latter’s entire office codes instead of specific suspected numbers. “This is uncalled for and goes against the prescribed procedure agreed upon by the parties in addressing these activities. More importantly, it extremely affects thousands of our legitimate LEC and corporate legitimate numbers,” Molina explained.
In 2005, BayanTel has a total of 227,075 subscribers, or a 6.74-percent market shares. While PLDT has 2.043 million users with a market shares of 60.70 percent.
--Darwin G. Amojelar - Manila Times
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