OTTs vs telcos: Who will steal a march in 'Walled Garden' season 2?

As telecom companies and OTTs tussle over revenue-sharing for data usage, the jury is still out on who will prevail

Prateek, a 30-something executive working in a private firm, got down the elevator at a multi-storeyed apartment complex in the National Capital Region with his eyes and ears fixed on the small screen in his hand. He walked to the parking lot without losing a screen moment, got into his car, fixed the mobile phone in front of the steering wheel and drove away, glued to a web series that was perhaps a conversation starter within his peer group later in the day.

This was just before the first wave of Covid-19 hit life and livelihood, and work from home