{"id":846493,"date":"2024-08-21T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=846493"},"modified":"2024-08-21T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T05:10:22","slug":"comparing-ott-services-to-telecom-services-completely-erroneous-bif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/21\/comparing-ott-services-to-telecom-services-completely-erroneous-bif\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing OTT services to telecom services completely erroneous: BIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Industry body Broadband India Forum on Monday contested telecom operators&#8217; suggestion to bring internet call and messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Google Meet under the ambit of telecom licences.<\/p>\n<p>Broadband India Forum (BIF) President TV Ramachandran, in a statement, said bringing OTT (over-the-top) services under the Telecom Act is in complete violation of Article 14 of the Constitution, which guarantees equal treatment to every person and entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Industry body Broadband India Forum on Monday contested telecom operators&#8217; suggestion to bring internet call and messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Google Meet under the ambit of telecom licences. Broadband India Forum (BIF) President TV Ramachandran, in a statement, said bringing OTT (over-the-top) services under the Telecom Act is in complete violation of Article 14 of the Constitution, which guarantees equal treatment to every person and entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}