Respected Sir/Ma'am,
I would like to submit my response for the Consultation Paper regarding Net Neutrality .
The issues faced by the TSP with regards to generating revenue because of usage of OTT, is a product of the free market. If the whole and sole reason for the law was to protect the interests of corporates, the landscape of India would differ in many ways from the way we have.
I support the right of the corporates to make money off their services, but if we allow them to specify which data should be charged and which not, it would be a slippery slope. Consider, if Airtel specifies that any data going to there Wynk (music) app would be free, and any data going to Gaana.com app is chargeable. This would lead to a monoply on their network for any App they decide to support.
With regards to the usage of infrastructure, I would like to point out that the Right to Internet is currently considered a fundamental right by South Korea and Sweden. Net-neutrality was implemented their long ago, and these are the countries we should try to emulate, not theocratic Middle eastern regimes.
I have a longer and detailed argument about the requirements for Net-neutrality in India , but I would like to point out only one thing.
We are a free society, and our basic goal is to provide the greatest amount of individual liberty that we can allow without infringing on the morality of the society. Keeping this in mind, the implementation of charging on the basis of data, by the different TSP's would severely limit the poorest people from being able to afford access to the different OTT's which have helped our growth . It's estimated by Mint, and other financial dailies, that the growth in industry has been benefited by up to 2% a year because in India, even the AutoDriver can afford a SmartPhone , which enables him to connect to an app like mGaadi.com , which provides on-the-fly auto services.
I would suggest that TRAI consider holding an on-line or off-line poll to check the peoples' response, and consider the FCC in USA has just passed the Net-Neutrality into Law, despite high-volume lobbying by ISP's in the USA.