Historically, the internet has worked as a transparent (neutral) pipe for exchange of information between any two points. The information can be used to support innovations, including ‘over the top’ (OTT) services which facilitate net-browsing (using sites like Google and Yahoo), social networking (Facebook and Twitter), video-sharing and streaming (Netflix and YouTube), voice-over internet protocol,…
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…
Raising concerns over over-the-top (OTT) players eating into voice revenues of telcos, former Vodafone India head Marten Pieters today said it could be “fatal” for the industry. “OTT is a serious worry. Eighty-five per cent of revenue of operators in India is voice, if that goes away, its fatal. Revenues are moving away to content…
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…