The Namibian police have held five foreign nationals for violating country’s Postal and Telecommunication Act 1992. The act bans any kind of telecommunication services without government license.
Joining hands with Namibian police, the Fraud Monitoring Unit of Telecom Namibia has caught these foreigners ‘red-handed’ at Walvis Bay for selling illegitimate VoIP services to the public and seized the equipment used to offer cheap international calls via an Internet connection.
A Telecom Namibian official said,
By using such devices together with VoIP gateways, multiplexes, modems and so on to bypass Telecom switches, the illegal operators are undermining the country’s laws as well as the viability of Telecom’s network by not paying Telecom Namibia right compensation.
Allafrica.com says that the foreign nationals were the co-owners of James and Rose shop, the owners of Ganen Lushen Shop and the owner of China Shop - all outlets situated in Walvis Bay’s Sam Nujoma Drive.
