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Needless to say we all love the internet. Smartphones, super fast download speeds, they have all made us & internet inseparable lovers. We need to see each other as soon as we open our eyes, glancing wantingly throughout the day at work, can't wait to get our hands on it once home.

Internet has freed us in ways we cannot even count or comprehend. It gives anonymity to those who want it and fame to those who can get it. Its miracles are abundant. Naturally, such a wonderful tool platform deserves to be free & open for all. There's plenty been written about Net Neutrality, I find myself standing on the other side of the line. Obviously I wouldn't want my ISPs to censor/throttle any websites, but on the other hand I think it would be nice if I could pick & pay a few extra bucks for Netflix. Don't we all pay for specific TV channels already? HBO should be made free I say. The obvious downfall could be I, in all likelihood, would be throttling my poor neighbour's connection (they can return the favour by boosting their wifi n/w, that interferes with mine).

Everyone, (that is the privileged 20% of us in India) already on the internet cheered as Facebook's FreeBasics was a no go by TRAI. That's about 20% of us deciding that the remaining 80% should have access to free & open internet, that is whenever they can get it in the next 10-20 yrs. Doesn't seem fair that the actual affected group had no idea whatsoever. We saved them from signing up with the evil corp FB, wasting their productive hours on candy crush. Who is to say, FB would have retained monopoly? How do we know other ISPs wouldn't have jumped in once Mark Zuckerberg got these good folks addicted to Internet? For now we can stay content and blame the govt for the lack of basic infrastructure in these remote areas, which will remain remote due to lack of connectivity.

Ending this post on a happy note for Airtel Broadband subscribers, they want to take you back to the era where you would download your emails on outlook and read them offline. That is a fantastic 64kbps once you cross their childish FUP data limit. http://trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/ConsultationPaper/Document/201602110227526691097Bharti_Airtel.pdf
I wonder, how is that speed (or the lack of it) not discriminatory to media rich sites?








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