Response to Question 1 :
It's way too early to establish such framework for OTT. Doing that will hamper nation's growth. It should be postponed for like 10 years. Let it mature and flourish in our country first.

Response to Question 2:
NEVER because it will hamper consumer choice, stifle growth of new kinds of products and services, and impede India’s economic progress. For example, if airline companies decide to offer online customer service through voice chat, an already heavily taxed and loss-making industry should not have to take another license.

Response to Question 3:
Radio channels cannot tax television channels for reduction in revenue. Even if OTT players are impacting the traditional revenue streams of TSPs, the TSPs cannot tax OTT services. Market forces should allow TSPs to reach a profitable price-point. TSPs need to invest in the quality and expansion of their existing products. TSPs need to explore outside their traditional revenue streams. India’s economy needs to favour innovative companies’ not outdated incumbents with vested interests.

Response to Question 4:
OTT players should NEVER pay TSPs for anything that can entail the violation of principles of Net Neutrality.

Response to Question 5:
The Internet IS a levelled playing field for everybody. In today’s world, OTT players do not operate solely in the virtual world but, on the contrary, interact with “REAL” world products and services, and result in creation of innumerable jobs. In an ever more connected world, any law or regulation which breaks this ‘FLAT’ and ‘NEUTRAL’ nature of the Internet would harm economic growth.

Response to Question 6:
This question requires a completely separate debate in itself. First and foremost, governments and all companies should respect and uphold the consumer’s Right to Privacy. If we lose privacy, we lose freedom itself because we no longer feel free to express what we think. India cannot be allowed to become a complete surveillance state which taps every OTT service which a consumer accesses. Second, OTT services should be allowed to freely combine and bundle online communication services within applications, and shouldn't be forced to keep data records. For example, an online vegetable ordering service should not be forced to save online communications between a buyer and seller.

Response to Question 7:
All OTT services should adopt state of the art security standards in online communication. And they should keep consumers informed about the right privacy and security choices. In fact, the government should be proactive in making companies aware of such practices.

Response to Question 8:
As already answered, NO regulatory framework is required which violates Net Neutrality.

Response to Question 9:
Net neutrality should be strictly enforced with the bright line rules as mentioned above and as proposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). There is no need to fear surgeries getting affected because some users are hogging all the bandwidth.

If tele surgeries were to happen, the concerned hospitals will take dedicated 1GBPS fiber lines which ISPs will specially install to those hospitals. No need for TSPs to worry about such surgeries happening over iPads or iPhones.

Response to Question 10:
The only forms of discrimination or traffic management practices that are “reasonable” are network wide measures. Say, if it is a major game day and everybody wants to watch a video live, then everybody’s viewing experience gets affected. That’s it.

Response to Question 11:
The TSPs should not be allowed to adopt “traffic management techniques.” That should be defined as illegal and should lead to the cancellation of licenses of said TSPs.

Response to Question 12:

TSPs are businesses. It’s not the consumer’s headache to worry about how to make any business profitable. Nobody asks an airline user: “who should bear new airplane purchase costs?” Let the TSPs worry about how to “invest in network infrastructur