OTT platforms like Netflix, and Amazon and content material supply platforms like Common Studios and Warner Bros. have reportedly opposed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) intention to control them. The platforms argue they don’t seem to be telecom operators and don’t fall beneath the authority’s regulatory ambit.
The content material platforms also referred to as CDN (content material supply community) had been represented by world business our bodies such because the Movement Image Affiliation (MPA), Asia Video Trade Affiliation (AVIA) and the Broadband India Discussion board (BIF), in addition to advisory teams like Deepstrat and Koan Advisory throughout an open home session organised by the regulator relating to the session paper on the ‘Framework for Service Authorisations for provision of Broadcasting Providers beneath the Telecommunications Act, 2023’.
Uday Singh, managing director of MPA India, who was representing Walt Disney Studios, Netflix, Sony, Common Studios, Warner Bros and Amazon Studios stated CDNs facilitate seamless video supply by options like content material caching, video streaming, organisation optimisation, decreased latency and cargo balancing, distinguishing them from conventional telecommunications suppliers.
“Content material supply networks should not telecommunication networks,” stated Debashish Bhattacharya, senior dy—director normal of Broadband India Discussion board (BIF). He stated, as CDNs do not present connectivity, they neither fall beneath the definition of telecom networks within the Telecom Act, 2023 nor do they arrive beneath TRAI’s regulatory scope.
TRAI will maintain one other OHD on December 20 on the session paper on ‘Regulatory Framework for Floor-Primarily based Broadcasters’.
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