The regulator had received about 10 lakh comments on the first consultation paper it floated on net neutrality.
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TRAI, which has already ordered Free Basics to be put on hold in India, is now likely to finalise views on the issue of Net Neutrality by January-end.
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The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the largest representative body of internet companies in India, is of the opinion that differential pricing violates not only principles of net neutrality but the telecom regulator’s principles of pricing.
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Trai has received about 16.5 lakh comments – highest ever on any paper floated by it till date, the official said.
The debate has seen participation of prominent personalities, including former IT minister Milind Deora. “It’s really that basic, free or otherwise #FreeBasics”, Deora tweeted.
Facebook’s proposed Free Basics plan allows customers to access the social network and other services such as education, health care, and employment listings from their phones without a data plan.
Facebook announced that Free Basics, its program for providing free internet for over 30 developing nations, will no longer be available in Egypt. The move comes less than a week after Indian regulators asked Reliance Communications, Facebook’s partner in the free internet venture, to stop providing the service, questioning its legality.
In his piece, “Free Basics Protects Net Neutrality”, Zuckerberg maintained that the Free Basics service is a bridge to the full Internet and digital equality. This paper will determine the future of zero-rating plans as well as Facebook’s Free Basics project.
“Furthermore, while Facebook can add more telecom partners, which would theoretically open up the number of sites and services Internet.org users could access for free, it now has only one partner in India, Reliance”.
“Everyone also deserves access to the tools and information that can help them to achieve all those other public services, and all their fundamental social and economic rights”, said Zuckerberg in an op-ed published on the Times of India.
The statement said the major flaw in the model is that Facebook would be able to decrypt the content of the “basic” apps on its servers.
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Savetheinternet.in team said: “We welcome Trai’s decision to give the supporters of Free Basics an opportunity to participate meaningfully in the consultation process by answering the questions posed by Trai”.
