Telecom companies should not own content, urge net neutrality experts

As the government firms up its policy on ensuring net neutrality, experts urge that disallowing telecom operators from owning any proprietary content could become a direct way to ensure that no specific content is pushed or promoted over others.

At the very least, the principles of net neutrality — that guarantees consumers equal and non-discriminatory access to all data, apps and services on the Internet with no discrimination on the basis of tariffs or speed — should be defined in such as way so as to ensure an arm’s length treatment of the proprietary content by a telco, they say.

“There is a conflict of interest when a telecom operator plays the dual role of content and carriage provider,” says Nikhil Pahwa, the founder of..
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