I was reading review of the book “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live” discussed by the author Jeff Jarvis Blogger, journalist at Berkman Luncheon discussion series. The discussion and the content …
Archives for the category Network Neutrality
Book Review: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
To summarise, he has used the Schumpetarian cycle of “destructive creation” to try and justify why there is a need to enact a Network Neutrality Legislation. He shows through historical examples how each new innovative medium of communication, from the Telegraph to the Television, has over time, though born as an innovative new and “free” medium to communicate, has slowly been centralized and been absorbed to be manipulated and controlled by the few large corporations who have eventually come to dominate the American industry and even Government policy.
Guest Post : The Law on Network Neutrality
This is a guest post by Sudipto Sirkar a law student at Amity Law School who has an active interest in competition law. Sudipto recently participated in a moot court competition concerning issues of network neutrality law. He describes the legal arguments …
TRAI(ing) to keep it neutral
I feel the Internet is inherently discriminatory, however the basis of the discrimination is user preference and not its architecture. For eg. in the first few moments I am online I pop open a search engine and enter a query. …
Regulating privacy vs Blackberry
The recent coverage on media regarding the controversies related to Blackberry has raised certain serious questions on the State’s absolute power to monitor the flow of information and to regulate it in the name of National Security. This is …
TRAI recommends legalising Internet Telephony within India
TRAI has released recommendations permitting ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony. The DoT is likely to accept them with some modifications. Until now only international VoIP telephony was legal. National Long Distance operators will be permitted to connect to the …
Dispute over Interoperability of Set Top Boxes
A storm is brewing over the interoperability of Set Top Boxes for DTH Services, with one DTH Service provider accusing an established DTH player for supplying incompatible boxes to its customers. Read more here …
99 Problems and Skype ain’t one
A colleague commented that Skype and similar technologies which provide VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services enabling the transmission of voice over a data network as illegal in India. I was quite skeptical of the comment since Skype is very well operational …
Net Neutrality Litmus : India Turning Positive
The principle of net neutrality is quite simply the specification of minimum standards in achieving an objective. This allows multiple flavors of implementation, and hence it does not lock out innovation by multiple entities, does not make monopolies. The usage …