The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is continuing its efforts to secure the country?s telecommunication networks.
DoT has reportedly suggested amending the existing unified access service and the cellular mobile telephone service (CMS) licences. DoT plans to make it mandatory for operators to provide connectivity up to the nearest point of presence of the CMS? MPLS network at their own expense. This can be achieved through dark optic fibre connectivity with built-in redundancy.
Until telecom operators establish the optic fibre network, they will be required to provide 10 Mbps connectivity, which can be upgraded to 45 Mbps or higher, as specified by the government.
These measures are in line with the government?s plan to establish a centralised monitoring system in 10 circles by end-2013.
This system is expected to facilitate lawful interception of mobile numbers without manual intervention from telecom operators.
Currently, it is believed that the Centre for Development of Telematics has already installed two servers, one at Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited and the other at Telecommunications Consultants India Limited under the pilot project.
