War between OTT and telecom companies drives COAI to track data use

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has requested leading Indian telcos, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, to provide granular data on the amount of bandwidth on their networks consumed by the big four users — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Netflix.
 

Confirming the move, S P Kochar, director general of COAI, said that the aim is to put the information in  public domain for all stakeholders and also for the government.
 

COAI’s ballpark assessment, based on feedback from their members, is that a staggering 70-80 per cent of the bandwidth on their networks is consumed by these