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Friday, December 01, 2017

Net neutrality: Trai’s recommendations regarding internet services may be the strongest in the world

Net neutrality: Trai’s recommendations regarding internet services may be the strongest in the world: "The recommendations also require internet providers to declare whether they discriminate among various kinds of web traffic, like video and text.

 Nayantara Ranganathan, a researcher at the Internet Democracy Project, said this recommendation is not as specific as the one the regulator had floated in its consultation paper, which was circulated among stakeholders in the last few months.

 Ranganathan said that in the consultation paper, “they recognised the importance of meaningful disclosures, and went as far as including a sample disclosure format”. She added, “So it is surprising they haven’t really recommended anything more specific than saying that disclosures need to be given.”

 Yet another proposal of the regulator is that a committee of internet service providers, academics, civil society representatives and consumer groups be set up to detect net neutrality violations and communicate them to the government. It said it would elaborate on the specifics of this committee once the recommendation is accepted by the government." 'via Blog this'

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