Jul 01, 2017

Clarification on Direct Carrier Billing for Digital Content

On March 23, 2017, the Department of Telecommunications (“DoT”) has clarified, that mobile subscribers are permitted to download all paid digital content (such as e-books, applications, etc.) through their mobile phones, and make payments for such content using pre-paid account balance or post-paid bill payment methodology. The DoT has prescribed that the maximum value of such payments will be INR 20,000 (approx. USD 310) per transaction. Further, the DoT has also clarified that such purchase of digital content will not be treated as a pass-through revenue for the purpose of computing the adjusted gross revenue for licence fee and spectrum usage charge.

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