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Telecom Commission approves new telecom policy, backs net neutrality

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However, some critical services will remain out of the purview of the net neutrality rules   Internet fairness, a disputable issue the world over, has developed a champ in India. In a hard core meeting on Wednesday, the Telecom Commission, the most noteworthy basic leadership body in the Department of Telecommunications, affirmed the unhindered internet rules inferring web will stay open to everyone in the nation. Aside from unhindered internet manages, the commission has likewise affirmed the new telecom strategy — National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP), 2018 — went for advancing speculations, simplicity of working together, and developing advances like 5G. The proceed onward unhindered internet, which was the greatest choice at the gathering, is in a state of harmony with the suggestions of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). It is intended to guarantee no specialist co-op can limit or separate in the treatment of substance by blocking, backi...

RJio is choking our networks: telcos

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RJio is choking our networks: telcos The war that had so far been brewing silently between incumbent telecom operators and  Reliance Jio   has come out in the open. Industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) fired a salvo at Jio on Monday by writing to Telecom Secretary J S Deepak alleging that Jio was masquerading full-blown services in the guise of a trial, which they said amounted to predatory pricing. The COAI's letter was a response to one sent by Jio to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) claiming that incumbents were not providing enough interconnect bandwidth. In response, the incumbents have alleged that the burgeoning voice traffic emanating from  RJio   is choking their networks, given that 1.5 million subscribers of Jio are calling people who are on the networks of other leading telcos. When a subscriber of one network makes a call to a subscriber of another network, the point at which the two networks connect are known ...