Open Letter to TRAI by Aaditya Thackeray – Let Them Know #IndiaWantsNetNeutrality

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Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray hit out at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and wrote a letter to them, picture of which was posted on social networking website, over the issue concerning the end of net neutrality in India. Here is what the young politician had to tell in the letter addressed to the chairman of TRAI.

#IndiaWantsNetNeutrality

#IndiaWantsNetNeutrality: campaign is gaining ground online. The movement is aimed at opposing the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s proposal to charge every app downloaded.

What is Net Neutrality?

We enjoy Internet, Youtube, Whatsapp on mobile by paying our monthly or quarterly amounts for 2G or 3G net.
Now, TRAI is going accept a proposal from telecom companies that makes every app and every site browsed chargeable

Click here for Complete Details on Net Neutrality

He writes:

I write to you with a sense of worry and urgency hearing about the proposed regulation over killing the net neutrality as proposed by the telecom companies operating in India, in search for higher revenues.

Sir, with an expanding market for the telecom companies, and with the very few telecom companies, having virtually a semi monopoly scenes in most circles, people – the customers are complaining about being overcharged and mainly non transparency of bills, but that is an issues, everyone gives in to the commercial angle.

However, killing the net neutrality and allowing the telecom operators to do so is not only draconian, but also messes up the entire utility angle of access to internet that has been widely used in the country. People from almost every social and economic strata, have a mobile phone, and unknowingly uses the internet to communicate. 

The country has come closer today with the usage of phone services such as ‘Whatsapp ‘, its groups being used by very many families. There are people from the working sector, who communicate with their families, living far away. There are people who have taken phones on loans, so that they can use internet and ‘whatsapp’. ‘Whatsapp’ has been a major communication device, in all the economic classes, especially after the TRAI killed the ‘SMS’ 3 years ago with a limit on them, to promote data usage. To call it ‘Over the Top’ service now is to cheat the nation.

Furthermore, to either charge the website for either access or speed would simply kill the dream of the NDA government of ’Make in India’, whereby many young people have start-ups or small businesses via websites. To milk them to be at the same access speed of a giant isn’t simply fair. 

Sir, I strongly object the killing of net neutrality for OTT services. People’s choice of access to internet and information cannot be governed by the commerce of the telecom operator, who should be rather focussing on bettering services people pay for. They can have other ways of increasing their revenue shares, rightfully so, but I strongly believe once we subscribe to whichever telecom operator internet plan, our access to any site, any information on the internet and its speed of download should not be governed by the telecom operator.  

We cannot let the commercial interests of these few telecom companies govern our citizen’s ability to access information on the Internet, or let them ruin the neutral treatment of websites, legally available. This move would not only be regressive, but also drain our citizen’s economically and leave them without free access to information.

In an age, where the NDA Government is trying to bring in the “Digital India” revolution to benefit the nation, we must hammer down this move and keep the Internet neutral. The job of the telecom provider is to provide service, and that they should remain at that, not dictate by their economic whims. Slavery is a thing of the past, extortion is a crime, and by allowing the “Regulatory Framework for Over the Top Services, we virtually legalize both at their whims.

Sir, I urge you to halt this move that will draw public ire and damage our nation, which is on the threshold of moving forward digitally. 

I am glad that the TRAI has put up the framework for suggestions and objections from the citizens at large. What I write to you in this letter is not just my voice, but thousands of people have objected to the same. I hope the suggestions/ objections are made public, and am sure you will take a decision that benefits the citizens

Thank You in Anticipation.

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