Counter Comments to the Consultation Paper on Free Data

Jul 14, 2016

Following our initial comments on the Consultation Paper on Free Data, below are our set of counter comments that serve as responses to the comments made by TSPs and TSP associations.

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SFLC.in's Comments on the TRAI Consultation Paper on Free Data

Jul 01, 2016

On 19 May, 2016 the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India floated a Consultation Paper on Free Data, inviting stakeholder comments on the need for a Telecom Service Provider agnostic platform to provide free Internet to the under-privileged, the need to regulate such platforms, and whether free data needs to be provided over fixed-line broadband in addition to mobile Internet servic

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Free Basics Investigation

Jan 20, 2016

So while all of us were busy turning the consultation paper on differential pricing of data services put out by TRAI into a battle ground for Net Neutrality in India, on the sidelines, we decided to checkout Free Basics in action. So we got hold of a Reliance SIM card and a dying smart phone to take the free* ride.

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On the TRAI Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing on Data Services

Dec 11, 2015

The Telecom regulatory Authority of India has issued a Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services on November 9, 2015 and invited public comments to be sent by December 30, 2015.

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Interventions in the Internet Governance Forum 2015 by SFLC.in

Nov 30, 2015

Implementing Core Principles in the Digital Age

Mishi Choudhary on the panel talking about privacy, surveillance and its role in a free democracy. She also discusses self assigned innovation by technologists which the example of the FreedomBox project supported by the Freedom Box Foundation.

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Core recommendations of the DOT Committee on net-neutrality

Jul 17, 2015

In light of the emergence of net-neutrality and regulation of Over-the-Top (OTT) services as popular topics in national policy debates, in January 2015, the Department of Telecommunications under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) constituted a Committee chaired by Shri A K Bhargava [Member (T), DOT] with the following terms of reference:

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Net Neutrality: Bottom-up Perspectives

Apr 22, 2015

Half-day Consultation 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 22 April 2015, Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum

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