Subject: Net Neutrality
From: Arjun V
Date: 05-Apr-15 2:38 PM
To: advqos@trai.gov.in

Hi TRAI,

I am utterly disappointed with your old school way of looking for a solution to compensate for the investments done by the Telcos here in India.

The world has moved from telegrams, post cards and land-line telephones as well. Banks in the area of remittances, anonymous peer-to-peer transfer are slowly losing way with crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, Ripple, Stellar is one other recent trend. If you are going to hold on to them, It is only a matter of time before a working solution arrives for people to start pouncing on it. You suppress them with such controlling gimmicks and you are going to have a bigger reaction, accelerating their need for an alternative solution. 

Suppressing and constraining the freedom of people to route their data through telcos network only works as long they find better options. There are new technologies/options starting to bubble out like Mesh Network, Google Loon, Elon Musk's satellite based internet to name a few. Things are going to get decentralized moving forward and if anything is restricting its adoption, it is ripe for getting severely disrupted. 

I believe TRAI is an enabler for the consumers end of the day with a fine business model that few of the parties can benefit in their own shrewd (but not crooked) ways. If TRAI is so myopic in trying to cater to the demands of the business with very short time spans, TRAI would become irrelevant as well. 

Have a holistic (and long term) approach to work with parties involved and know what you higher purpose is. Don't shove people and force them to innovate, because someone is going to do it any way. It is just a matter of time.

Stay relevant. Make some sense

Grudgingly, 
Arjun