prasad1
Active member
Take the case of India. In 1995, one year after India began to liberalise the telecom sector, the mobile phone was a luxury for most Indians. Today, your milkman and the kabadiwala carry one. Sometime in the middle of next year, the number of mobile subscribers in India will cross one billion.
At the upper end of society, the ubiquitous information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services industry is now worth $120 billion. When the first mobile phone service was launched in India, the cost of a low end mobile handset was around Rs. 25,000. You can now buy one for Rs. 1,000. Smartphones, which bring the browsing power of the internet to your palmtop, can be bought for as low as Rs. 5,000.
The importance of net neutrality in furthering this cannot be over-emphasised. The idea of net neutrality is based on the simple principle that a network and the data that flows through it are two separate entities. As a logical corollary, since they are distinct, the entities that control the network (the telecom companies) should not, in any manner whatsoever, have any say on the content that moves through their networks.
It's about time regulators and the government say which side of the fence India stands on this.
It also means that you can not restrict knowledge and opinions. Are we ready for that or we will go crying to Government and courts to ban opinions that differ from our point of view?
At the upper end of society, the ubiquitous information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services industry is now worth $120 billion. When the first mobile phone service was launched in India, the cost of a low end mobile handset was around Rs. 25,000. You can now buy one for Rs. 1,000. Smartphones, which bring the browsing power of the internet to your palmtop, can be bought for as low as Rs. 5,000.
The importance of net neutrality in furthering this cannot be over-emphasised. The idea of net neutrality is based on the simple principle that a network and the data that flows through it are two separate entities. As a logical corollary, since they are distinct, the entities that control the network (the telecom companies) should not, in any manner whatsoever, have any say on the content that moves through their networks.
It's about time regulators and the government say which side of the fence India stands on this.
It also means that you can not restrict knowledge and opinions. Are we ready for that or we will go crying to Government and courts to ban opinions that differ from our point of view?
