India is the battleground over the right to unrestricted access to Internet, with local startups in the tech industry joining on the front line against the likes of Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook and the plan he has of rolling out free access to Internet for the masses.
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“We have extended it to January 7 mainly due to request from telecom industry bodies”, Trai Chairman RS Sharma said. Indicating that the whole consultation process could have been hijacked, he said, “It is like we have asked Question X and they have given answer to the Question Y”. In a statement the agency says the comments do not in any way address specific questions raised by net neutrality advocates.
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Facebook announced that Free Basics, its program for providing free internet for over 30 developing nations, will no longer be available in Egypt.
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It would therefore put the small providers of content as well as the startups that do not participate at a big disadvantage. “We have told one of the operators who had submitted its tariff plans and had asked the operator to put this particular product (Free Basics) in abayence… that operator has given us in writing that they have put their commercial launch of the product in abeyance”, Sharma said.
In addition, at stake is the ambition of Facebook to expand in what is the largest market for the company outside the U.S.
“How supporting Free Basics help me (TRAI) in answering the questions which we had asked for ‘whether differential pricing should be permitted or not”, Sharma said.
Since most of the responses did not answer the questions posed by Trai, they are of no use to the regulator.
Launched previous year in Zambia, Free Basics, earlier known as internet.org, has run in to trouble elsewhere on grounds that it infringes the principle of net neutrality. Authorities in Egypt effectively suspended the service when a required permit was not renewed after it lapsed on Wednesday.
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Facebook’s partner in Egypt, telecom carrier Etisalat Egypt, began providing Free Basics service two months ago, and Facebook says more than 3 million people in Egypt have signed up.
