Telecom players request Government to address revenue sharing model with OTT providers
By MYBRANDBOOK
Telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea represented by COAI, have written to the government on concerns regarding vital requirements for contribution by stakeholders towards addressing rising data traffic and associated infrastructure costs in the Indian telecom industry.
It had earlier requested the government to take note and address the crucial issue of large traffic generating (LTG) platforms/applications, including over-the-top (OTT) service providers to share the rising network costs.
COAI said that LTGs put a disproportionate amount of data traffic on the networks, and enjoy the benefits of telecom infrastructure built and maintained by operators for gaining profits giving rise to this debate.
According to a news daily, a source quoted the letter, “The deployment of 5G and the future 6G also necessitates increasing deployments on the edge with enhanced network capabilities. Besides the high cost for the same, the increased power consumption, optimisation, as well as infrastructure maintenance costs also need to be kept in mind.”
Earlier in a white paper, COAI mentioned that there is a potential loss of around Rs 800 crore to the government exchequer in the absence of cost sharing by LTGs, which is expected to increase further in the coming years if not addressed on time.
The foreign LTGs strongly opposed the extra cost carried by the telecom service providers (TSP) for carrying their disproportionately large traffic and provisioning the increasingly demanding infrastructure required to deliver so. The letter said, the LTGs prefer to enjoy Indian TSP’s networks and profit heavily from them.
“It may be noted in this regard that the Indian TSPs have maintained from the beginning that smaller players, start-ups and MSMEs which generate low traffic would not be required to pay the fair-share charge. Only the top LTGs which generate mammoth volumes of traffic would have to contribute the same to share in the rising network costs,” the letter added.
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