Trai rejects DoT call to extend registration/scrutiny to OSPs

Kolkata: The sector regulator has rejected the telecom department’s call to extend mandatory registration and scrutiny formalities to data-based other service providers (OSPs), saying such a move would hurt efforts to ring in ease of doing business in the telecoms and BPO sectors.

An OSP, typically, provides IT-enabled business process outsourcing (BPO) services or others such as tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-education, e-commerce to call-centre operations.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has stuck to its earlier recommendation that such registration formalities should only apply to voice-based OSPs offering outsourcing services by connecting with traditional circuit-switch or IP-based voice networks.