Not OTTs, but telcos’ users directly driving data traffic, says BIF

The Broadband India Forum (BIF), which represents major technology firms like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Netflix, has said that telecom operators are misleading the government with their arguments that OTTs (over-the-top players) are directly consuming majority of the bandwidths on their networks and therefore should pay a network fee. Infact, telcos’ own subscribers have deployed OTTs or content and application providers (CAPs) services on their devices, which is leading to data traffic surge, for which telcos charge a tariff, BIF said in a letter to telecom secretary Neeraj Mittal.