Telecommunication Commission clarifies net neutrality rules, new policy – details to know

Certain critical applications or services such as remote surgery and autonomous cars will, however, be excluded from the network neutrality framework. "The Telecommunication Commission (TC) today approved net neutrality as recommended by Trai, expecting certain essential services to be excluded from its jurisdiction," said the chairman of the Commission. telecommunications, Aruna Sundararajan. recommended to service providers not to enter into agreements leading to discriminatory treatment on the Internet.

Trai had favored the amendment of player licensing standards to ensure "explicit restrictions" on discrimination in Internet access, on the basis of content.

The Telecoms Department will establish a multi-stakeholder body for monitoring and enforcing network neutrality including government representatives, IoTs, telecom operators, civil society members and consumer organizations.

DoT will ask Trai for recommendations on traffic management for critical services. Sundararajan said: "Everyone at the meeting today said that the digital infrastructure is even more important than the physical infrastructure for India … CEO Niti Ayog ( Amitabh Kant)) said that for the … districts, we must ensure that the digital infrastructure is provided at the earliest. The NDCP aims to attract 100 billion US dollars or about Rs 6.5 million crore investments, 40 new lakh jobs, 50 megabits per second of broadband access to every citizen in the digital communications sector. here 2022 with the help of reforms.

An official, who was part of the meeting, said that the TC approved the installation of WiFi hotspots 12.5 lakh in all gram panchayats with a viability deficit of about Rs 6,000 crore by December 2018.

As part of the WiFi project, all police stations, post offices, primary health centers and schools will be connected to WiFi services by December 2018 and one or two Additional Wi-Fi hotspots will be available.

The TC also approved the elimination of double taxation of virtual network operators (VNOs) that provide retail services to telecommunications operators.

According to the approved proposal, WNVs will be required to pay taxes on the basis of their adjusted gross revenues from any added value that they will make on top of the service they will buy from operators. telecommunication for sale to end consumers.

also approved rules for the implementation of pilot projects to be funded by the Universal Service Obligation Fund.

The pilot projects will aim to explore other broadband connectivity technologies other than WiFi and the mobile Internet. solutions for less developed districts.