In May 2014, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed allowing ISPs to create pay-to-play fast lanes, prompting a public backlash that led to the shelving of the proposal and the introduction of stronger net neutrality protections in February 2015. Net neutrality ensures that ISPs treat all web data equally without discrimination, but in India, the Telecom Regulatory Authority is facing pressure from telecom operators to allow blocking of apps and websites for profit. TRAI has issued a complex consultation paper addressing this issue, containing 20 questions across 118 pages.

2. 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.

4. 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.

6. 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.

9. 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 spre
ad across 118
complicated
pages.