The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been stumped by the nature of responses it received on its discussion for “Differential Pricing for Data Services”.
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Launched past 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. “Consultation by Trai are not opinion polls, we are not asking if the answer is yes or no because that does not help us”.
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“These voices should be heard”, said Sharma adding that in cases where the regulator has email IDs of the respondents, TRAI will send an email to those respondents and ask them to re-submit their responses along with justifications again. Sharma said although these comments are also in a template form, the template answers all the questions with minor variations so there is no need to write back to them.
Just days after telecom regulators in India temporarily banned Facebook’s Free Basics program, Egypt on Wednesday became the second country to clamp down on the social media giant’s controversial free internet service.
Free Basics is available in 36 countries (its site still lists India) throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, using what’s called a “zero-rating” approach, where providers of internet access – whether mobile carriers or internet service providers – don’t charge customers for their data usage.
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There is a chance that Free Service will be reactivated in both India and Egypt as the regulators for these countries are said to be reviewing the impact the service will have on internet use. “We expect the stakeholders who participate to provide meaningful inputs”, TRAI Chairman R.S. Sharma told The Hindu.
