So can i use Vonage, Skype, Whatsapp, Viber and other OTT VoIP services in India ?

VoIP is permitted in India subject to regulations of interconnect with landline/mobile numbers in india. So you can use these OTT services and VoIP application/device to call

1. IP Phones in other countries
2. Landline/mobiles in other countries.
3. IP Phones in any part of India (provided you use IP addresses and not E.164 compliant telephone numbers)

Skype, Viber, Whatsapp, facebook messenger, etc are IP Phone to IP phone type of calling applications and therefore are perfectly legal. 

You cannot call a landline India. If you try calling a landline/mobile in India would require to connect to server outside India and then route using PSTN/PLMN gateways which will incur significant ISD charges making local and STD calling prohibitively expensive and render it un-competitive (on cost) in comparison to traditional voice service offered by telcos and cellular operators. Similarly their is no way to call a VoIP number from landline/mobile number in India.


- Suman Kumar Luthra @ APRC-P3 Telecom Sub-Committee