Subject: Net Neutrality |
From: Prabodh Katti |
Date: 07-Apr-15 3:11 PM |
To: advqos@trai.gov.in |
Dear TRAI
I am writing to express my concern against the actions that telecom carriers are taking to restrict fair access to the internet (net neutrality). Internet is a vital resource—it helps one communicate, work, and thrive as a citizen. If telecom operators can discriminate internet traffic on the basis of which services pay the most, we are allowing telcos control over a vital and necessary technological resource. By doing so we allow these companies a control over out internet usage.
This is completely unfair and harms India’s long term role in the global market. Businesses which thrive on this neutral internet will be harmed if they have to pay hefty amounts to big companies to get to their customers. Specific sites can be throttled by the ISPs if they do not like them. The freedom, fairness and
the impartiality of the internet, as we know it, will be jeopardized.
I strongly believe the growth of telecoms and the well-being of the internet can go hand-in-hand, as they have been since the telecom boom in India. I’m asking for a framework to ensure long term and fair access for all services regardless of size. I want my generation and those that come after me to have unfettered access to the Internet, with no telcos or ISPs having the ability to charge for specific services I use on top of it. Please understand that the internet is an important resource and vital to me and to every other Indian citizen. I would like to see it kept free and protected under Net Neutrality to ensure fair and equal access for all and forever.
Regards,
Prabodh Katti
Trivandrum, India.