Europe’s operators have been periodically demanding better payments from over-the-top providers for years, and now their counterparts in India have joined the debate. SP Kochhar, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), called on the government to force OTT and content providers to compensate the operators for use of their networks to deliver their services to end users. As in Europe, the argument is that the operators are the primary investors in new networks, which are then used by OTT providers whose applications may drive the need for new capacity without delivering significant additional revenue to operators. COAI also claims that the Indian government would earn more tax revenue from operators if the OTTs paid higher fees…