Our notes from the TRAI seminar on the regulatory environment around OTT’s, essentially, regulation of Internet services on Mobile. For context, read this and this. Please pardon the typos. Some parts of the talk have been paraphrased. CS Rao, Reliance Communications: High end users are nearing the saturation for mobile internet speed, and smart digital services are on the rise. It is service centric (telecom operators) vs experience centric (Internet services). The telecom world today is based on the Interconnect Usage Charges regime: It is all on wholesale and retail model. Mobile termination charges are fixed by the operators and we look at web content and cloud applications as a VAS model. Towards 4G, it's an all IP network, and all services will be IP services, including voice. Video services will move towards expectations of HD (High Definition). The gateways should have the emphasis on QoS and the API. What worked so far may not work in the future. That's the fear that we as telcos have. Because of services like Whatsapp, Viber, Facebook, Twitter etc. Even players like LinkedIn Yammer, Cisco Webex will come in. At the same time, there is a contextual change: a multiple of US and Europe centric social communication platforms and other platofrms like Android and Apple. Mutiple OS, devices, there will be some regulatory pressures on migrating towards an IP interconnect regime. We are facing multiplicity of services, devices, networks, ecosystems, interactions. Between all this, the bottom line is that we're a federated telecom service provider. We all know that OTT…
