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OTT platforms no longer keen on exclusive content, turn to sharing rights
6 months, 2 weeks ago

OTT platforms no longer keen on exclusive content, turn to sharing rights

Live Mint  

Video streaming platforms are no longer insistent on keeping original content entirely exclusive and are syndicating it to rival players in some form or the other. “It takes time and investment to create new content and we’re increasingly seeing that our Hindi dubbed business is big,” Soumya Mukherjee, chief operating officer of Bengali streaming service hoichoi, said. While the platform’s …

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Stressing India’s Unique Telecom Mkt, COAI Calls for Govt to Take Lead in Regulating OTTs for Industry Growth
1 year, 3 months ago

Stressing India’s Unique Telecom Mkt, COAI Calls for Govt to Take Lead in Regulating OTTs for Industry Growth

News 18  

The Cellular Operators Association of India has called upon the government to take the lead in creating regulations for Over-the-Top players rather than adhering to global benchmarks, stressing the uniqueness of India’s telecom market conditions. As per the association, there is a disparity between the telecom service providers and OTT players, particularly Large Traffic Generator OTTs. While TSPs invest in …

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Telcos seek compensation from data-intensive OTTs, says COAI
1 year, 3 months ago

Telcos seek compensation from data-intensive OTTs, says COAI

India TV News  

Industry stakeholders in India have urged the government to establish a legal framework that mandates large traffic-generating over-the-top players to pay a fair and proportionate fee to telecom and mobile service providers for the services they utilize. Therefore, telecom service providers are shifting their revenue generation focus towards networks, applications, and innovative services, including OTTs. The Cellular Operators Association of …

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Telcos seek regulatory framework to levy usage charge on OTTs, exemption for small players
2 years ago

Telcos seek regulatory framework to levy usage charge on OTTs, exemption for small players

The Hindu  

New Delhi Telecom operators industry body COAI has written to the government to set-up a licensing and regulatory framework to charge a 'usage fee' from big internet-based calling and messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Google Duo. In a letter to Telecom Secretary K. Rajaraman last week, the Cellular Operators Association of India Director General SP Kochhar said that charges may …

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COAI for bringing all OTT players under regulation
2 years, 1 month ago

COAI for bringing all OTT players under regulation

The Hindu  

The Cellular Operators Association of India on Tuesday pitched for regulating all OTT players, including communication over the top players such as WhatsApp, and those such as Netflix that consumed huge bandwidth. There is a need to ensure a level-playing field among all technologies, i.e., same service, same rules with respect to OTT communication services, so that a fair and …

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I&B minister dispels myths around new rules in meeting with OTT players
3 years, 9 months ago

I&B minister dispels myths around new rules in meeting with OTT players

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The self-regulatory bodies formed by digital news publishers and over-the-top video streaming platforms will not have any member appointed by the government, the information & broadcasting ministry clarified on Thursday. The I&B minister Prakash Javadekar met representatives of OTT platforms and dispelled myths around the digital media guidelines notified last week. “Thus, it was decided that the government …

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