Dear TRAI, I am writing to express my serious 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.

As a Government office it is your duty to ensure that the citizenry of India has a voice and it is the driving factor in your decision making and not some industrial complex which is the case in some major democracies around the world. It is time that we grow a brain and act like a real democracy which I know we are unlike some other countries.

As a Vodafone prepaid customer I have already faced problems with accessing sites like Youtube and Google. I want to reserve the right to choose an Internet based service and company based on my personal preferences, and not that of TRAI and the Telcos, just like I have this right in other mediums of choosing where to spend my money outside of the Internet.