Man arrested for satellite phone use in India

inquisitor · 17-01-2010, 12:25

Interesting! A friend of mine, who had been working in India for a couple of years, borrowed my Iridium sat phone a couple of times for usage outside of terrestrial network coverage. When he made a hiking tour in the Himalaya to some area in the proximity of Pakistan (I think it were 50 km), I jokingly warned him to watch out for UAVs when using it, as he might be taken to be some insurgent. I presume he was really lucky not to be discovered with a sat phone near the border to India's archenemy.
That friend also used VoIP for years, when it was suddenly blocked and we found out, that using VoIP is a criminal offence over there, too.

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inquisitor (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Professionist Posts: 1,399 Join Date: 15 Nov 2006 Country:	17-01-2010, 12:25 Interesting! A friend of mine, who had been working in India for a couple of years, borrowed my Iridium sat phone a couple of times for usage outside of terrestrial network coverage. When he made a hiking tour in the Himalaya to some area in the proximity of Pakistan (I think it were 50 km), I jokingly warned him to watch out for UAVs when using it, as he might be taken to be some insurgent. I presume he was really lucky not to be discovered with a sat phone near the border to India's archenemy. That friend also used VoIP for years, when it was suddenly blocked and we found out, that using VoIP is a criminal offence over there, too. terminals: Samsung: Galaxy S5 DuoS (G900FD); BLU: Win HD LTE; Nokia: 1200; Asus: Fonepad 7 ME372CG; Huawei data: E3372, Vodafone R201, K3765, E1762; postpaid: O2 on Business XL; prepaid: DE: Aldi Talk, Lidl; UK: 3; BG: MTel, vivacom; RU: MTS; RS: MTS; UAE: du Tourist SIM; INT'L: toggle mobile VoIP: sipgate.de (German DID); sipgate.co.uk (British DID); ukddi.com (British DID); sipcall.ch (Swiss DID); megafon.bg (Bulgarian DID); InterVoip.com