OTTs must pay telcos, says COAI

NEW DELHI: Telecom players on Thursday said that the government should provide a legal framework to ensure that over-the-top (OTT) players that are large traffic generators pay a fair and proportionate share to them for the services provided by them. India is undergoing the fastest 5G rollout in the world and more than 3.3 lakh 5G base transceiver stations have already been deployed by the telecom service providers.

“While telcos have been carrying the massive investment burden for deploying networks and delivering connectivity across the country entirely by themselves, OTT players have emerged offering bandwidth heavy services and generating disproportionately high traffic,