Network Neutrality
Regulating privacy vs Blackberry
The recent coverage on media regarding the controversies related to Blackberry has raised certain serious questions on the State’s absolute power to monitor the flow of information and to regulate it in the name of National Security. This is not the first instance where state has been eager in intercepting messages, Section 5 of the [...]
TRAI recommends legalising Internet Telephony within India
TRAI has released recommendations permitting ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony. The DoT is likely to accept them with some modifications. Until now only international VoIP telephony was legal. National Long D sitance operators will be permitted to connect to the internet and shall have mutual agreement for unrestricted telephony.
Dispute over Interoperability of Set Top Boxes
A storm is brewing over the ineroperability of Set Top Boxes for DTH Services, with one DTH Service provider accusing an established DTH player for supplying incompatible boxes to its customers. Read more here
99 Problems and Skype aint one
A colleague commented that Skype and similar technologies which provide VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services enabling the transmission of voice over a data network as illegal in India. I was quite sceptical of the comment since Skype is very well operational in India. So a little research later at the TRAI website revealed the [...]
Net Neutrality Litmus : India Turning Positive
The principle of net neutrality is quite simply the specification of minimum standards in achieving an objective. This allows multiple flavors of implementation, and hence it does not lock out innovation by multiple entities, does not make monopolies. The usage of the term, “digital signature certificates” throughout the Information Technology Act, 2000 has significant bearing [...]
