This means that broadcasters like Sony, Zee, Star etc can continue to telecast their live TV channels for free on their OTT apps. Even telecom operators can broadcast such live TV channels on their apps for free if they choose to. This also means that Trai's upcoming consultation paper on regulation of OTTs will only focus on communication-related OTTs like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc.
Currently, telecom operators, DTH and Cable TV operators are under tariff regulation but their counterparts in the OTT space are not. Trai is the regulator for both telecom and broadcasting sector, but it has no powers to regulate OTTs.
Sources said that since the department of telecommunications (DOT) had sent a reference to Trai for examining the scope for regulating communicationrelated OTT apps, the regulator asked the I&B ministry if it also wants to bring entertainmentrelated OTTs to be brought under the purview regulation of any kind of tariff The I&B ministry replied in the negative.
With the I&B ministry declining tariff regulation for entertainmentrelated OTTs, Trai will also not be able to act on a complaint by Bharti Airtel that Reliance Jio's recent bundled fixed broadband plans offering 400500 live TV channels are predatory.
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