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Decentralisation
of registration under Other Service Providers (OSP) category and
‘Telemarketing’ category from CS Cell of DoT (HQ) to the field units of VTM
Cell
Press
Note Office Memorandum
Press
Note dated
2nd June 2008
Office
Memorandum dated 2nd June 2008
OM dated 5th Aug.
2008 regarding revision of OSP terms and conditions
(pdf)/(doc)
Clarification regarding Terms and Conditions for registration of
Other
Service Providers (OSP)
Amendment to Terms and Conditions for Other Service
Provider (OSP) Category
Registration under Other Service
Providers (OSP) category
As per New Telecom Policy (NTP) 1999, Other
Service Providers (OSP), such as tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-trading,
e-commerce etc will be allowed to operate by using infrastructure provided
by various access providers for non-telecom services. The Telecom
Commission in May 1999, accorded in principle approval for registration of
Call Centers, both International and Domestic, in the country under the
above category. Later, services like Network
Operation Centers and Vehicle Tracking Systems, were also added to this
category. As per the Terms and Conditions formulated by the Telecom
Commission in February 2000, these application Service Providers
could take telecom resources from authorized Telecom Service Providers only
and may not infringe upon the jurisdiction of other authorized Telecom
Service Providers and they will not provide switched telephony. The
Department of Telecommunication (DOT) will charge a processing fee of
Rs.1000/- per case. From its inception, over 2500 cases have
been registered under OSP category till date. These companies should meet
the revised terms and conditions of OSP registration dated 05.08.2008 as
given at Annexure –I (pdf)/(doc) .
Instructions
regarding Telecom Resources issued to all OSPs are given at Annexure -II
The format of annual return to
be submitted by the registered OSP is given at
Annexure
III.
Registration of OSPs and Telemarketers is done by
the respective Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TERM) Cells
(formerly known as VTM Cells) as per location of the OSP/Telemarketing
Centre.
The Access Service Providers
must ensure that the customers have valid registration papers from the OSP
Cell of DoT before providing them with the telecom resources. Action
will be taken against Access Service providers who do not adhere to the
above requirement.
Applicants are advised to
submit the application for registration /amendment in the prescribed Form-1 proforma only at the contact address mentioned in
the Annexure of Form-1.
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