DoT pushes for disallowing Telcos' zero rating plans -1Via The Economic Times | Jun 30, 2015The telecom department's much-awaited report on 'net neutrality' is said to have recommended disallowing the controversial zero rating plans of telcos while proposing that throttling and any sort of prioritisation of Internet traffic should be banned by the government. "There should be no paid prioritisation which creates discrimination and no degradation of traffic on the internet on the basis of applications, content, services or even the end user," a senior government official privy to the report said. The six-member committee's report together with the telecom regulator's recommendation will form the final basis of the government's policy on net neutrality, a principle that guarantees consumers equal and non-discriminatory access to all data, apps and services on Internet, with no discrimination on the basis of tariffs or speed. ET had reported in May, that the six-member government committee concurred that zero-rating plans which involve commercial arrangements at the back-end violate the idea of net neutrality as they seem to provide discriminatory access to select content.