Red Flag for Differential Pricing, TRAI Favors Net Neutrality!

Now TRAI may want to deny the fact that differential pricing and net neutrality are co-related but matter of the fact is these two go together as bread and butter. Imagine this, you enter a park with your child and pay a fee of 100 INR but when you go to the swing section the park keeper asks you to pay 50 extra bucks for playing in that area so you go to the toy section next to it. But when you enter it, the keeper again asks you to pay a sum of money for playing in that area. This exactly is the meaning of differential pricing; different prices for different content or applications. Now net neutrality means that everyone would be allowed to access everything that is available on internet without being charged any extra amount. So you see these two terms are indeed co-related. This is a major set-back for Facebook and telecom organizations that have been relentlessly trying to launch Free Basics (previously known as internet.org) and differentially price netizens according to the applications they use. Differential pricing won’t just change the way we’ve always used Internet, but will be unfair and discriminating, diluting net neutrality.

The paper floated in by TRAI saw a government body using participatory democracy for a change asking the Indian netizens to vote and tell that whether or not they want differential pricing. The paper had 24,00,000 responses and most of them was against differential pricing. “A great victory of Democracy”, it was as TRAI ruled against differential pricing. The storm may have been weathered but Facebook won’t give in so easy on the business plans it has and nor will Telecom operators. So brace yourselves netizens because, “Winter Is Coming”!!

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