How It Begin ?In May 2014, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler released a plan that would have allowed companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to discriminate online and create pay-to-play fast lanes.Millions of you spoke out — and fought back.Thanks to the huge public and political outcry, Wheeler shelved his original proposal, and on Feb. 4, 2015, he announced that he would base new Net Neutrality rules on Title II of the Communications Act, giving Internet users the strongest protections possible.

What Is Net Neutrality ?

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging

differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.

After the US, it’s India’s turn to fight for net neutrality …

US just won its battle for net neutrality last month. Plus, TRAI is under pressure from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), a telecom industry association that counts Google and

Facebook among its members and is lobbying against net neutrality in the country.

Why Should I Care ?

Neutrality also means that no matter telecom

operator you're with you should be able to access all data on

internet at the exact same speed .

Simply put, just because your telecom company

hypothetically

has a deal with say flipkart shouldn't mean that the can

make the amazon website load slower for

you

Sooo slow in fact that you eventually give up and are forced to shop at

flipkart because it's the only one that opens fast .

As the only thing worse than

no internetis slow internet.Telecom operators want to

carve up the

internet into a

bunch of different

sections ..

such that you have to

pay to access

every single one of them separately .

Let’s Understand It With An Example …..

Defend Internet Freedom in India!

Join us in fighting for net neutrality.

The idea net neutrality internet service providers

give their customers equal

access to all lawful websites and

services on the internet, without giving priority to any website over

another.

Due to intense lobbying by telecom operators like Airtel and Vodafone, the

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

(TRAI) is planning to allow them to block

apps and websites to extort more money

from consumers and businesses .

TRAI has released

a consultation

paper with 20

questions spread

across 118 complicated pages.