As the government firms up its policy on ensuring net neutrality, experts urge that disallowing telecom operators from owning any proprietary content could become a direct way to ensure that no specific content is pushed or promoted over others.
At the very least, the principles of net neutrality — that guarantees consumers equal and non-discriminatory access to all data, apps and services on the Internet with no discrimination on the basis of tariffs or speed — should be defined in such as way so as to ensure an arm’s length treatment of the proprietary content by a telco, they say.
“There is a conflict of interest when a telecom operator plays the dual role of content and carriage provider,” says Nikhil Pahwa, the founder of..
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