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Re: [gaia] South African operators call for regulation of OTT services

Jon Crowcroft <jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 15 January 2016 08:16 UTC

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Sadly, these sorts of moves are often symptomatic of regulatory capture by
incumbent telcos. I don't know if that is the case here. Can also be over
reach by intelligence services too
On 15 Jan 2016 1:05 am, "David Johnson" <david.lloyd.johnson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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