While Net-neutrality has been hotly debated in the US with FCC receiving over a million comments on this topic, India's stand is not clear.
Just a quick history - Net neutrality was coined by Prof Tim Wu of Columbia Law School in 2003. This idea is to ensure Telcos do not exercise control on internet traffic.
President Obama is a proponent on Net Neutrality. He has recently said "an entrepreneur's fledgling company should have the same chance to succeed as established corporations, and that access to a high school student's blog shouldn't be unfairly slowed down to make way for advertisers with more money"
In India Airtel wanted to create separate tariff for VOIP based OTT services - Over the Air services like Skype, Viber. Thankfully Airtel backed-off.
From a Telco's point of view, viewing all data traffic as "same" may not make business sense as they want to cash in on providing "fast lanes" for some customers.
TRAI is expected to come-up with a document soon. In a country like India Net neutrality is very crucial with millions of people accessing internet over mobile phones
Just a quick history - Net neutrality was coined by Prof Tim Wu of Columbia Law School in 2003. This idea is to ensure Telcos do not exercise control on internet traffic.
President Obama is a proponent on Net Neutrality. He has recently said "an entrepreneur's fledgling company should have the same chance to succeed as established corporations, and that access to a high school student's blog shouldn't be unfairly slowed down to make way for advertisers with more money"
In India Airtel wanted to create separate tariff for VOIP based OTT services - Over the Air services like Skype, Viber. Thankfully Airtel backed-off.
From a Telco's point of view, viewing all data traffic as "same" may not make business sense as they want to cash in on providing "fast lanes" for some customers.
TRAI is expected to come-up with a document soon. In a country like India Net neutrality is very crucial with millions of people accessing internet over mobile phones
