The COAI today reaffirmed its support to Net Neutrality and made a strong pitch for ‘Net Equality’ that will enable access to Internet for a Billion Indians as part of the Government’s Digital India vision. The Association urged all stakeholders to have a comprehensive and informed debate on the subject of Net Neutrality keeping in…
Industrial body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today reaffirmed its support for ‘net neutrality’, but also made a strong pitch for ‘net equality’ that will enable access to Internet for a billion Indians as part of the governments digital India vision. In a statement today, COAI urged all stakeholders in net neutrality to have…
The COAI today reaffirmed its support net neutrality and made a strong pitch for ‘Net Equality’ that will enable access to Internet for a billion Indians as part of the government’s Digital India vision. The COAI has asked the government to create an enabling environment for investment in creating infrastructure for Internet access. As per…
A consultation paper issued by the TRAI has in recent weeks triggered a misguided campaign to “Save the Internet”. The hype around “net neutrality” has been such that standup comics to 24×7 TV Studio talking-heads have hopped on the bandwagon with little understanding of the underlying issues. The TRAI consultation paper on “net neutrality” and…
“Never have I seen a moment of so much excitement and yet so much anxiety,” said Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron early on in a recent speech, in which he went on to elaborate how his newspaper was tackling the digital transition. Baron was, of course, referring to the current state of journalism, a…
The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) released that a contract which permits Skype customers to top up their accounts at over 50,000 Western Union Agent locations across the U.S. This strategic association advances Western Union’s market leadership in enabling digital-age participation by utilizing a walk-in payment solution for consumers. It as well paves the way for…
The political class jumped into the burning issue of net neutrality with Parliamentarians Tathagata Satpathy and Rajeev Chandrasekhar saying that any move to allow telecom operators to charge subscribers separately for using some apps would restrict people’s access to internet and go against the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India. In a recent letter to…
The political class jumped into the burning issue of net neutrality with Parliamentarians Tathagata Satpathy and Rajeev Chandrasekhar saying that any move to allow telecom operators to charge subscribers separately for using some apps would restrict people’s access to Internet and go against the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital India.
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Imagine what kind of an Internet you would have in India three years from now, once the Airtel Zero idea, of creating a free Internet by allowing Internet companies to buy data, becomes the norm across telecom operators. The top four telecom operators are adding around nine million mobile Internet users a quarter. India is adding around…