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  Congress accuses PM Modi of 'deafening silence' on net neutrality

  Politics | January 17, 2016 18:53 IST

  New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "deafening silence" on the issue of net neutrality at the launch of Start-Up India action plan and demanded the Rs.10,000 crore fund for

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  Decoding the Free Basics vs Net Neutrality debate in India

  December 30, 2015 16:08 IST

  The public debate on net neutrality in India just entered a new phase with Facebook's ‘Free Basics' campaign. An op-ed column by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a national daily just ahead of the Telecom

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  Net Neutrality: TRAI aims to resolve some issues by early 2016

  December 27, 2015 23:55 IST

  New Delhi: As the debate over the Net Neutrality resurfaces, telecom regulator TRAI has said it is looking to solve the issues “part-by-part” and also aiming to come up with the final guidelines based on

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  Net Neutrality: Govt extends deadline for comments to August 20

  August 16, 2015 7:20 IST

  New Delhi: Government has extended the deadline for submission of public comments on the proposed policy framework for 'net neutrality' till August 20.There has been a sudden surge in public comments on the proposed framework

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  Committed Towards Non-Discriminatory Access to Internet: Government

  July 26, 2015 5:44 IST

  New Delhi:  The government on Friday reiterated its commitment to provide non-discriminatory access to Internet for all in the country and stick to the 'fundamental principles' of Net neutrality."Government is committed to the fundamental principles

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  Government's final view on net neutrality still awaited: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  July 23, 2015 16:35 IST

  New Delhi: The recent report submitted by the government on net neutrality was not the final one, and the final view is still awaited, parliament was informed on Wednesday. “The committee of officers constituted by the

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  Government's final net neutrality view still awaited: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  Politics | July 22, 2015 18:03 IST

  New Delhi: The recent report submitted by the government on net neutrality was not the final one, and the final view is still awaited, parliament was informed on Wednesday."The committee of officers constituted by the

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  DoT report upholds core principles of Net Neutrality in India

  July 16, 2015 23:57 IST

  New Delhi: The report submitted bt the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) panel headed by AK Bhargava has upholded the core principles of 'Net Neutrality' in India.The panel has recommended that user right on the internet

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  Net Neutrality: DoT panel okay with Airtel Zero; against Internet.org

  July 06, 2015 13:12 IST

  New Delhi: A Department of Telecommunications panel on net neutrality is learnt to have opposed projects like Facebook's Internet.org, which allow access to certain websites without mobile data charges, while suggesting that similar plans such

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  Net neutrality report to be out soon: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  June 27, 2015 20:26 IST

  New Delhi: Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the government will soon come out with its report on the controversial issue of net neutrality, and the telecom department is waiting for the report

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  Net Neutrality panel report to be made public soon: Telecom Minister

  Politics | June 02, 2015 20:36 IST

  New Delhi: The telecom department panel that was set up to look into the Net neutrality issue has submitted its report to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and the report will be made public in

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  Advani supports opposition at crucial meet on net neutrality

  Politics | May 22, 2015 10:02 IST

  New Delhi: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani embarrassed his own government when he called for annulling the meeting of representatives of private internet service providers Airtel, Vodafone and Idea on contentious net

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  Airtel Zero, Internet.org against net neutrality: MTNL

  May 17, 2015 17:36 IST

  New Delhi: State-run MTNL has said Bharti Airtel's 'zero rating plan' and RCom's 'internet.org' scheme defeat the basic concept of net neutrality and such pacts should not be allowed as they affect economic interests of

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  CCI waits for Net Neutrality norms before probing telco plans

  May 10, 2015 16:20 IST

  New Delhi: With debate continuing to rage on Net Neutrality, the Competition Commission will wait for regulations to be in place before taking a call on whether the actions of the telecom and Internet firms

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  Customers should have unrestricted access to all lawful content on Internet, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

  May 06, 2015 12:37 IST

  Committing himself to keep the Internet equally accessible to all users, Telecom and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad yesterday said blocking and deliberate slowing down or speeding up of lawful content on the web should

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  Net neutrality: Wrong medicine will not remedy digital divide

  India | April 29, 2015 16:18 IST

  It is easy to get swept away in the maelstrom of views and counter views, but difficult to arrive at an informed decision on the subject of net neutrality -- the uninhibited access to legal

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  Congress seeks probe into TRAI releasing 1 mn e-mail IDs

  Politics | April 28, 2015 13:45 IST

  New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday asked the government to investigate as to why thed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) put up on its website the names of over one million people who had

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  Trai website down after uploading comments and email IDs on net neutrality

  India | April 27, 2015 21:23 IST

  New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) was hacked after the regulator made public the email ids of those who have submitted their comments on net neutrality.Anonymous India, a group of hackers have

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  Net Neutrality: Internet.org offers free access to over 800 mn says Mark Zuckerberg

  April 23, 2015 15:27 IST

  Even as the debate on Facebook's Internet.org initiative violating net neutrality rages on, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said the platform has made free basic Internet services available to more than 800 million people in

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  Net neutrality: Read how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended internet.org

  April 22, 2015 19:57 IST

  New Delhi: Denying that internet.org is against net neutrality, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pointed out that it has benefitted "millions" of people on RCOM network in India.  In his Facebook post on Friday, Zuckerberg