Trai proposes internet at 2 paise per MB by easing access to Wi-Fi: New Delhi: Telecom regulator Trai plans to unshackle Wi-Fi deployment across the country by allowing individuals, communities, small-time entrepreneurs and content and application providers to offer affordable and high-speed internet to the public. Read More
Net neutrality, digital access, and Trai: Will innovation and the real end-users win?: The telecom regulator, Trai, has launched the second, and hopefully, final phase of its net neutrality consultation, more than two years after the commencement of formal regulatory and policy discussions on the subject. The overlong consultation is a reflection of the global…
TRAI shifts deadline for Net Neutrality comments to March 15: Telecom regulator Trai today extended the last date for comments on the contentious Net neutrality by a month to March 15. Telecom operators and Internet-based companies have been at loggerheads on the issue which is linked to providing preferential access to select customers. Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has ruffled the Net Neutrality feathers yet again. Last year, the regulator floated a paper on Net Neutrality and differential pricing, which was followed by a heated debate amongst stakeholders. Net Neutrality, the principle of keeping the internet a fair and open platform, won last year’s differential pricing debate…
TRAI’s new consultation looks to provide legal framework for net neutrality in India: India’s telecom regulator TRAI is asking how non-discriminatory access to content on the Internet can be ensured in a paper titled “Consultation Paper on net Neutrality”. The regulator discussed about various issues of Net Neutrality including traffic management, throttling of speeds, and…
Indian regulator TRAI has come under criticism from mobile operators and net neutrality supporters after recommending a controversial method of providing free data. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has posited two models of offering free data. The first model would be subsidised by the universal service obligation fund, and see rural subscribers each receiving…
Net Neutrality to Aadhar Bill: The Tech World’s Biggest Policy Changes in 2016.Take a Look Back at the important Developments in the Technology Policy Spaces in 2016 and want to Look Forward to in 2017. Read More
Letters: Preserving Net neutrality: With reference to the editorial, “Bridging India’s digital divide” (December 27), platform services and zero-rated products are anti-competitive, predatory business strategies that risk creating digital divides by skewing the playing field in favour of applications and services that enjoy privileged pricing. They often masquerade as policies to narrow the digital divide…
Free data in rural areas: Trai proposal could violate Net neutrality: Less than a year after the government banned Airtel Zero and Facebook’s Free Basics for violating net neutrality provisions, Trai has recommended an aggregator model to provide rural smartphone users with 100MB of free data a month. It examined three possible models—a ‘reward’ model…
Telcos, zero rating critics wary of Trai’s free data proposals: NEW DELHI: Telcos and net neutrality backers have both criticised the sector regulator’s recommendations on free data. While carriers say that an additional aggregator layer creates unwarranted complexity, backers of an open Internet have raised concerns that the model resembles zero-rating. Read More