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). I believe the internet is a vital resource – it helps me 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 them to define what information we can view; what entertainment we can access; and how companies can innovate.

This is completely unfair and harms India’s long term role in the global market. I strongly believe the growth of telecoms and the well-being of the internet can go hand-in-hand. 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.

Furthermore I've listed some points in favor of Net Neutrality:

1. As far as I know the core issue of NN is when a network starts paying attention to the content of the letters, and not in just delivering. And by reading the data in a packet, they are essentially breaking privacy
   
2. The exact mechanism by which this will be implemented, may actually put the network providers at risk — by breaching privacy they end up being witness to all sorts of illegal acts. (Course the lawyers they pay will ensure that contracts will be designed to prevent this liability. But it should be used as an avenue of attack)
   
3. More vexing is the issue where a service provider like wikipedia pays for their bandwidth costs anyway, and then have to pay extra, or get into an agreement which effectively skews the market place — to let the network behave as normal.
   
4. One of the ways they could achieve “fast lanes” is by making everything else slow down. Again, the consumers pay more for the same thing.
   
5. The fact that vodafone or who ever is losing money from their traditional system of revenue is also untrue — it can be argued that they wouldn't be selling so many phones, or so many connections if it were NOT for the various services the net enables.
   
6. India is one of the most advanced mobile markets in the world. There’s loads of data on the mobile telephony sector. The telecom companies are profitable, and are still getting paid for their services.