One of the big promises we were made about the Internet was its potential to revolutionize the way that we interact with the world around us. The Internet enables us to transcend our physical restrictions and travel the world; it allows us to access and ingest research, art, culture and knowledge that would have in…
Net neutrality has been a much debated issue in India following the consultation paper issued by Trai. This was expected as mobility is a great success story in the country and mobile internet is at the heart of our digital world. However, this is a complex topic with many interrelated aspects that touch upon openness,…
Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said here today the report on controversial issue of net neutrality, prepared by a telecom department panel, has been sent to the telecom regulator and would be made public soon. State-run telecom Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited will offer free national roaming from June 15, said Prasad. Addressing a…
In what is a self-contradictory stance, an internal committee of the department of telecommunications (DOT) has recommended that zero-rating plans are not a violation of the principle of Net neutrality, and has urged that the government should adopt the policy of Net neutrality as it is globally defined. Union minister for communications and IT Ravi…
The telecom department panel that was set up to look into the Net neutrality issue has submitted its report to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and the report will be made public in a few days. “Yes, they (the panel) have submitted the report to me. In few days time, the report will be put…
The controversial Facebook initiative to provide free internet access to selected services has now been launched in Pakistan in collaboration with Telenor Pakistan. This launch comes at a time when there’s a raging net neutrality over Internet.org going on in its neighbour, India. This announcement was made during an interactive event, which was attended by representatives from Telenor Pakistan…
The department of telecommunications will seek cabinet approval for the spectrum sharing and trading policy by the end of June, communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. “We have received the final recommendations from Trai (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), and the department is looking into them,” Prasad told reporters. The Telecom Commission, the…
Waiting for a bus at Chennai Moffusil Bus Terminus (CMBT) and don’t know how to kill time? You can browse the web using the Wi-Fi facility that will soon be launched at the bus station. Posters with the wordings “have a mobile but no internet, yes we have free Wi-Fi coming soon” welcome passengers as…
With a rapidly growing number of Internet users and a surge in e-commerce transactions, the average monthly domain name registrations in the country has more than doubled to 4 per cent of all global registrations, according to industry estimates. This, however, is way behind the additions in China, which accounts for 20-22 per cent of…
Internet Protocol (IP) traffic in India will quadruple at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent by 2019 due to increasing mobile access and demand for video services, tech firm Cisco said. It took 32 years – from 1984 to 2016 – to generate one zettabyte of IP Traffic annually. According to this…