“In addition to being against net neutrality, the differential pricing models suggested by TRAI prima facie also violate the regulator’s own stated principles of intervening in pricing,” IAMAI, with members like Google, Facebook and Twitter, said
New Delhi : Industry body IAMAI, whose members include Facebook, Google and other Internet companies, voiced against platforms like Free Basics that can lead to creation of different prices of Net based on content or websites people want to access.
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said that different pricing models mentioned in the consultation paper of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) are not only violating the core principles of TRAI’s pricing regulation but also the principles of Net neutrality.
“No, the TSPs (telecom service providers) should not be allowed to have differential pricing for data usage for accessing different websites, applications or platforms,” IAMAI said in its comment over Trai’s ‘Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services’.
