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Telecom regulator TRAI today proposed exploring models to give consumers free Internet service within the net neutrality framework, months after barring platforms like Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero under its differential pricing rule.
“The consultation paper (on free data) is being issued to explore model(s) that could achieve benefits of offering free data while avoiding the ingenuity that the differential tariff regulation is meant to prevent,” the regulator said in the consultation paper.
The process opens up scope for those applications or platforms that promise to provide free data without the intention of ‘gate-keeping’ consumers on content access.
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