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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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