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Nasscom says that apps and websites must be able to decide for themselves about free data to customers
Posted on: 05/Jul/2016 9:51:14 AM
The IT industry body Nasscom has said that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, must give complete flexibility to apps and websites for deciding on provisions for rewarding free data to customers. Nasscom was responding to a consultation paper of TRAI’s that spoke about free data for telecom customers.
Nasscom has said, Operators should not have direct or indirect influence on the content that customers view on the Internet. The purpose of free data or concessions on data usage as reward is to encourage users to explore Internet. When the reward is given by the platform and not by the individual website, it should not have any conditions attached that translate into discrimination between websites and apps or have any conditions as to which websites and apps may be accessed, either implicitly or explicitly, including stipulations regarding technology or content.
There should be no stipulations on how the data reward can be used by the customer, like restricting its use to specific websites. Net Neutrality is a universal concept, which was recently upheld by the US courts as well as other nations in the past, where TSPs, or telecom service providers, as access providers, have no power to influence consumer choice relating to services, applications, content that a consumer accesses. Therefore, TSPs should not have any direct or indirect influence on the content that customers view on the Internet.
TRAI is exploring the equivalent of toll free number for Internet space where customers can access websites without having to incur data charges. It is also looking at a framework, which should be compliant with the principles of net neutrality and it should be telecom network agnost.
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