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posted by CoolHand on Friday May 22 2015, @05:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the hands-off-our-net dept.

The Times of India website carried coverage of the net neutrality fight in India.

It seems that the telecom authority stirred up a hornets nest by suggesting that net neutrality could come to an end in India:

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had created a flutter last month by floating a discussion paper which suggested that net neutrality could soon end. The issue generated much heartburn and was debated vigorously on online platforms, with politicians too weighing in.

Currently, India has a defacto net neutrality policy (which is to say no explicit policy at all). The major carriers are arguing for the right to charge content providers for carrying their content (big surprise).

Last month one of the big web shopping sites in India, Flipkart, pulled out of Airtel Zero's program of offering free services to Airtel customers in return for payment by Flipkart directly to Airtel. (Similar to Netflix pays Comcast). Indian net neutrality fans were dancing in the streets for Flipkart's refusal to play along.

But apparently the carriers were less than pleased and started lobbying the regulators. This resulted in other (elected) government officials to rushing to net neutrality's defense. The dust has not yet settled on that debate.

The first linked page has a rather entertaining video name Save the Internet that explains the situation in India.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday May 22 2015, @08:16PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday May 22 2015, @08:16PM (#186646) Journal

    This!

    I thought the accents were part of the fun.
    And another interesting aspect is that just about everything they cover is exactly the same a here in the US.
     

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