Archives for the tag Net Neutrality
Apar GuptaIndia must step up on Net Neutrality
US dismantling net neutrality gives India the chance to be a global leader
Unlike the US, net neutrality is a non-partisan issue and enjoys support across party lines in India.
Net Neutrality fulfils constitutional promises
The road to an open Internet
Telecom policy rarely captures the popular imagination. While many may have immediate concerns on the nuisance of unsolicited telemarketing, worries of over-billing or even allegations of corruption in the reward of licences, they rarely take an active interest and become stakeholders in the development of a regulation.
TRAI and Net Neutrality: Courts must weigh public interest that have shaped this order
Within two weeks of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) “open internet order”, a consortium of telecom and cable companies challenged it in court. The FCC, the US telecom regulator, had made the open internet order to protect network neutrality. Usually restrained in regulating internet services, it cited the overwhelming public interest from regulation.
Net Ambiguity
Delay in settling net neutrality issues helps big incumbents, entrenches bad norms.