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.

They argued that CSPs are already regulated by MeitY and any additional regulation by the telecom department or TRAI will lead to overlap.

To this, TRAI chief Sharma said that all TRAI recommendations are sent to the Government of India and not to any single department.

COAI had said that CSPs do not fall within the same category of service providers as defined in the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 owing to the fact that CSPs merely use the existing connectivity provided by telecom service providers and do not constitute telecom service providers by themselves. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1582965005.5258422/Cloud-Service-Providers-To-Be-Regulated-Under-TRAI:-RS-Sharma?ref=audio_experience