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Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks
The telecom operators in India have been batting for ‘same service, same rules’. There are many OTT (over-the-top) communication platforms available for users in India that allow voice and video calling along with texting. This is something that the telcos are having an issue with now. The telcos also offer the same services to consumers. But they have to pay statutory dues to the government and invest more in the networks to ensure that consumers get a good experience. However, the OTT communication platforms don’t have to do any such thing. In fact, most of the traffic of the OTT platforms, such as WhatsApp and Telegram, comes from the mobile networks of the telecom operators.
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Thus, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has proposed a revenue-sharing model for the OTT communication platforms to operate. This is because the revenues of the OTT platforms are being generated because of the networks that the telcos are investing in. It has been proposed that the percentage of revenue that will go to the telcos from the OTT platforms can be discussed by the companies themselves. Note that this is the OTT content platforms, such as Netflix and Prime Video, that are being talked about. It is strictly the platforms that enable communication between the users in the same manner telcos do.
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