TRAI vs. Facebook: 5-Point Guide to the Net Neutrality Uproar
Whoa…that’s like actually ruling us…what is the TRAI’s Judgment? Is it against us?
TRAI has ruled against differential pricing offered by Free Basics for Internet services yesterday and not against us. This effectively bans Facebook from offering this controversial service. TRAI saw a government body using participatory democracy for a change and floating a consultation paper seeking views of the Indian netizens on whether to allow the telecom operators to differentially charge them on the basis of the application or the service they use. The paper had 24,00,000 responses and most of them was against differential pricing. “A great victory of Democracy”, it was as TRAI ruled against differential pricing.
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