Trai to tackle regulatory imbalance in OTT consultation process

NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) intends to tackle the “regulatory imbalance” between mobile phone companies and over-the-top (OTT) applications which provide communication services similar to telecom operators such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Google, riding carriers’ networks, through an ongoing consultation process.

“In the OTT consultation, our focus is on the regulatory imbalance from the perspective of telecom operators,” Trai chairman RS Sharma told ET.