Cloud Service Providers To Be Regulated Under TRAI: RS Sharma

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has now said that cloud service providers are to be regulated under its provisions.
TRAI chief RS Sharma on Friday (February 28) reportedly said, “CSPs are service providers under the TRAI Act and, therefore, we are dealing with this issue.”
Sharma was speaking at an open house discussion on a TRAI consultation paper seeking suggestions for a framework to set up an industry body to regulate cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, VMware and CtrlS.
For the uninitiated, TRAI in October 2019 had sought public views on parameters for companies to become members of a cloud industry body and the likely governance structure, should there be single or multiple industry bodies which may be registered under the telecom department, fees that should apply to them, etc.
TRAI secretary SK Gupta said, “Anything which is wired/wireline, audio, sound, image…everything is covered under telecommunication and therefore, well within the framework of the TRAI Act.”
They argued that CSPs are already regulated by MeitY and any additional regulation by the telecom department or TRAI will lead to overlap.
A representative of Amazon Web Services said all the issues raised in the TRAI consultation paper are already governed by some law or the other, be it data processing or compliance needs.
Overarchingly, you’ve got the IT Act in place that governs each of our offerings along with contract law,” they said.
To this, TRAI chief Sharma said that all TRAI recommendations are sent to the Government of India and not to any single department.
“Let us not lambast TRAI for trying to interfere in the area,” Sharma said.
In earlier discussions in December 2019, US India Business Council (USIBC) said there’s more than sufficient regulation of cloud services in the industry and Indian cloud service providers should not be subject to new regulations

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