[WFS-India] [Off-topic] - Airtel wants to break net neutrality. We have to fight back!

[Abhiram Ravikumar]

Hi all,

Found another article that describes clearly, how and why Airtel's move is
a disastrous and unhealthy one. (here
<http://www.medianama.com/2014/12/223-a-response-to-airtels-statement-justifying-net-neutrality-violation/>
)

Some experts worth reading:


*The Internet is an access service, for which consumers pay Airtel, and
> VoIP is a service that consumers use via the Internet. What is provided
> over the Internet should be none of Airtel’s concern, providing the
> Internet should be. *





*What Airtel is doing is slicing up the Internet into types of services,
> and charging for those separately. Which means, and this is a privacy
> issue, it checks what you are doing online.*


Finally, this:

*VoIP calls are becoming 311% more expensive if you take the Rs 249 data
> pack, and 470% more expensive if you take the Rs 449 data pack (2.5 GB).*

Source:
http://www.medianama.com/2014/12/223-a-response-to-airtels-statement-justifying-net-neutrality-violation/

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Aruna S <safincrazy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Airtel's new stand to break net neutrality in India by charging extra for
> VoIp calls threatens to break net neutrality, and more importantly tries to
> pave the way for other service providers to do the same thing unless we
> raise our voices against this.
>
> We must garner enough support against Airtel's stance on this, otherwise
> this will only cascade, and succeed in breaking net neutrality and charging
> people in excess.
>
> I am attaching a poster made by Rahul Kondi, a student, from FSMK. Feel
> free to share/tweet and make some noise on social media. Also, suggest any
> changes. :)
>
> They are also presently running a meme campaign on Facebook. Airtel has
> some advertisements here <http://gophoto.us/key/airtel%20ad> (especially
> the ones at <row 3, col 2> and <row 5, col 1>) that are just waiting to be
> turned into something funny. Please support the campaign. I am also
> attaching the memes made by the students at FSMK with this email.
>
> Thanks for your support!
>  More links for your reference:
> [1]
> http://www.vijayanand.name/2014/12/why-airtel-threatens-the-future-of-tech-in-india/
> [2] http://netneutrality.in/
>
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-- 
Regards,
Abhiram Ravikumar
http://abhiramrk.in/
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