Trai begins consultation to review terms, conditions for OSP registration

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has floated a consultation paper seeking to upgrade the regulatory structure around registration of other service providers (OSPs), offering services such as tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-education, ecommerce, call centre, and other IT-enabled services.

Through the paper issued Friday, the regulator has sought industry views on multiple aspects – from the validity of such registration to the charges, connectivity, interconnectivity aspects and even security conditions.

Trai sought stakeholder views on whether the definition of the application service in context of OSPs need to be changed and “Whether, the Application Services which are purely based on data/ internet should be covered under Application Service for the purpose of defining OSP.”