In an unparalleled, passionate campaign, India’s internet users have sent nearly 400,000 emails in the past three days asking the country’s telecom regulator to safeguard internet neutrality. The number of emails is expected to double in the coming days.
The regulator, Telecom Authority of India (TRAI), is currently being bombarded at the rate of 10,000 mails per minute through a campaign Savetheinternet.in set up by a chain of volunteers. The campaign is in response to TRAI soliciting public opinion on whether telecom firms, who are also India’s biggest internet service providers, can be allowed to charge different rates for different uses of internet data – for instance, email usage or internet browsing charged differently from usage of apps like Whatsapp, Viber and Skype.
India is to grow its mobile internet user base to 173 million by June 2015.
Along with hundreds of thousands of vociferous internet users, leading opposition politicians, actors and even stand-up comics are flooding the regulators’ inbox and egging on their followers to do so. A video campaign created by India’s best-known comedy group All India Bakchod has gone viral on social networks, its followers spewing ridicule against the regulator’s move.
“This is a shocking and totally unexpected response, we have never seen anything like this before on the Indian internet,” a campaign volunteers Kiran Jonnalagadda said. The intensity of the campaign demands that the telecom regulator and the government take notice, said Bangalore-based Jonnalagadda, founder of a platform for coders. Full story...
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The regulator, Telecom Authority of India (TRAI), is currently being bombarded at the rate of 10,000 mails per minute through a campaign Savetheinternet.in set up by a chain of volunteers. The campaign is in response to TRAI soliciting public opinion on whether telecom firms, who are also India’s biggest internet service providers, can be allowed to charge different rates for different uses of internet data – for instance, email usage or internet browsing charged differently from usage of apps like Whatsapp, Viber and Skype.
India is to grow its mobile internet user base to 173 million by June 2015.
Along with hundreds of thousands of vociferous internet users, leading opposition politicians, actors and even stand-up comics are flooding the regulators’ inbox and egging on their followers to do so. A video campaign created by India’s best-known comedy group All India Bakchod has gone viral on social networks, its followers spewing ridicule against the regulator’s move.
“This is a shocking and totally unexpected response, we have never seen anything like this before on the Indian internet,” a campaign volunteers Kiran Jonnalagadda said. The intensity of the campaign demands that the telecom regulator and the government take notice, said Bangalore-based Jonnalagadda, founder of a platform for coders. Full story...
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