Top OTT players should share telecom infra cost: Whitepaper

NEW DELHI: Large traffic generators or LTGs, responsible for disproportionate network traffic should share network deployment cost, and the entire burden on telcos would not be sustainable, a telecom carriers group in a whitepaper Thursday said.

“The best solution is for an equitable share of these (infrastructure) costs to be borne by the 4-5 LTGs responsible for the disproportionate traffic growth,” the finding, commissioned by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said, and added that putting the entire burden on telecom service providers is neither sustainable, nor prudent.