Re: Regulator (TRAI) to have industry consultation on OTT...

I feel TRAI's charter is in serious need for an amendment that forces it to
look out for the interests of the customers/public over the interests of
industry.

First with the whole unsolicited calls/SMS fiasco, they drafted their stupid
solutions based on the industry's "right to spam" rather than the customers
"right to privacy" and have imposed illogical limits on communication.

And now this "industry consultation" called based on the telcos "right to
profits".  Will they next entertain requests from India Post and various
Courier companies to levy a charge on email/online storage service providers?

It's time the telcos realise that they themselves are mere OTT providers
piggybacking on public land and airwaves and public interest should always
trump their selfish interests.

Kingsly

+++ Banibrata Dutta [2014-08-11 10:19:57]:

> Of course... BMTC in Bangalore !
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Banibrata Dutta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>     This demand and rationale is as strange as DTC in Delhi, BeST in Mumbai,
>     BMTC in Mumbai chiefs getting together and asking for government to ask
>     commuters who use it's services to go to their place of business and earn a
>     healthy income, to start paying more -- just because they are efficient and
>     happened to be able to devise a clever business plan, execute it to
>     perfection to their advantage. The fact that the commuter is paying your
>     regular bus-fare, isn't enough. The reason that DTC, BeST and BMTC cite is
>     that if they do not earn money from this rich buggers, it cannot buy new
>     buses or upgrade to newer better buses.
> 
>     No wonder these people got themselves into this truck-load of muck in the
>     first place.
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:07 AM, vijay gill <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>         follow up
> 
> 
>         http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/
>         trai-floats-plan-to-put-fee-on-free-apps-whatsapp-viber/1/208856.html
> 
> 
>         On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Banibrata Dutta <
>         [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>             Media Nama reports ... covering the event.
> 
>             http://www.medianama.com/tag/trai-internet-regulation/
> 
>             Kudos to One97 MD Vijay Shankar Sharma for calling spade - a spade.
>             Many gems in there.
> 
> 
>             On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Banibrata Dutta <
>             [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>                 See some strange reasoning...
> 
>                 Telcos losing revenue to, and unable to compete with OTT
>                 providers... Which means pricing of messaging services aren't
>                 set competitively?
> 
>                 http://m.lightreading.in/lightreadingindia/news-analysis/297382
>                 /trai-dialogue-telcos-otts?utm_campaign=050814&utm_medium=daily
>                 &utm_source=newsletter
> 
> 
> 
> 
>             --
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> 
> 
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