DoT panel says zero-rating plan does not violate Net neutrality

A department of telecommunications (DoT) internal committee has recommended that zero-rating plans (allowing telcos to ask websites to pay them so that consumers can access their websites for free) are not a violation of the principle of Net neutrality, two senior officials aware of the development said.

At the same time, the committee has also urged that the government should adopt the policy of Net neutrality as it is globally defined. Access to the Internet should be without any prioritization, with no throttling or discrimination being tolerated, one of the officials said on condition of anonymity.
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