Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone to TRAI: Time to control Google, WhatsApp, Telegram and others

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Thought have requested the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to make new guidelines for messaging apps corresponding to WhatsApp, Google’s RCS and Telegram. Based on a report by Financial Occasions, they’ve requested TRAI to create licenses or permissions for these OTT (over-the-top) communication apps, stating they supply related companies to what cell phone operators provide.
OTT gamers refers to these apps and companies that work over the web

OTT apps have changed textual content and voice calls: Telcos to TRAI

In its response to Trai’s exhaustive session, Airtel stated.“OTT companies and purposes have thrived and multiplied, enabling elements being absence of any regulatory obstacles and on the spot entry to a worldwide viewers by way of the broadband connectivity powered web,”
With out naming any particular app, it stated that the OTT gamers have turn out to be substitutes of textual content and voice companies.
OTT apps, however, oppose this claiming that they’re already regulated beneath the Info Know-how Act.
As per the report, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Thought have additionally backed TRAI’s proposal to overtake the present telecom licensing regime and produce a pan-India single licence, particularly Unified Companies Authorisation (Nationwide).
Telco stated that the proposal for a single pan-India authorisation marks the primary vital change within the licensing regime in 30 years since 1994. It should ease of doing enterprise, simplify rules, reduce prices, scale back litigations and way more, they stated.
Nevertheless, they cautioned that the brand new regime should not disrupt the present structural core of the telecom sector including that the web service suppliers (ISPs) shouldn’t be allowed to offer leased traces/VPNs.