Big tech cos delisting small apps over fees but won’t pay fair share for network use: COAI

Telecom operators’ body has called out the duplicity of large traffic generators (read: Google) who refuse to pay their fair share for using telecom networks on the pretext that it would hurt startups and small businesses but at the same time delist startups for not paying app store service fees.

Ironically, these same LTGs (large traffic generators) vehemently oppose the proposal for making a fair-share contribution to telecom infrastructure costs required to carry their disproportionately large traffic, SP Kochhar, director-general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a statement on Tuesday.