[gaia] South African operators call for regulation of OTT services
David Johnson <david.lloyd.johnson@gmail.com> Thu, 14 January 2016 22:09 UTC
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So it looks like South Africa is about to have its India moment: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/146905-why-whatsapp-must-be-regulated-in-south-africa.html Interestingly enough this move is supported by the two dominant operators in SA - MTN and Vodacom but one of the smaller players - CellC has gone in the opposite direction and offers Unlimited WhatsApp for the month for $0.4 per month. and free Facebook and Facebook Basics. Apart from the clear breach of net neutrality if such regulation is enacted - the claim that OTT services are getting an unfair advantage by allowing their services to make revenue through advertising / low-cost calls etc. over their networks and should therefore pay extra to run their services is ridiculous. Its precisely the popular services like WhatsApp/Facebook - especially as users share images/videos - that bring in data revenue for the networks. And operators just have to realise that SMS/voice is a dying revenue. Charging popular OTT services for running on their networks is like asking Amazon to pay additional special road tax or extra toll fees for making money by delivering goods on public roads or toll roads. I guess services like torguard - which hide the services in normal https traffic - can bypass the traffic classification if the evil operators get their way. David
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