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The Indian regulator has taken a position in stark contrast to its US counterpart, the FCC whose actions are a reminder that regulation itself is subject to political vagaries, & changing governments TRAI has come out with its recommendations for the net-neutrality regime in India. This comes close on the heels of its counterpart in the US turning its back on it two years after it had endorsed it. The author looks at TRAI’s recommendations and also at what the big influencers were in this matter globally. We can now say, with some certainty, that the Indian telecom regulator (TRAI)’s support for net-neutrality is among the strongest in the world. The timing could not be more auspicious – TRAI now stands tall alongside European regulators, even as it positions itself in stark contrast to its US counterpart, the Federal Communication Commission, where the Trump appointee Chairman Ajit Pai infamously proposed a roll back of net-neutrality rules last week. Yesterday, TRA...

IoT also under non-discriminatory treatment, but with a rider exempting critical services identified by DoT LATEST NEWS  : Telecom sector regulator Trai has recommended upholding the basic principle of keeping internet free and not allowing any discrimination based on content. However, the regulator has proposed to exempt specialised services, which are optimised for specific content and are not internet services. Department of Telecommunications (DoT) may identify these specialised services. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has also included internet of things (IoT) to fall under the non-discriminatory treatment but with a rider saying critical IoT services, which may be identified by DoT, would be exempted. Also, the regulator has exempted content delivery networks (CDNs), which enable mobile operators to deliver content within its network without going through the public internet as also allowing telecom operators to deploy traffic management practic...

India looking to position itself as a leader in 5G technology LATEST NEWS :    As India pursuits to grow to be a frontrunner in 5G , the government is operating on to create a Rs 500-crore fund for improvement of the technology and it has also created a excessive-level committee to paintings on a roadmap for the roll-out of 5G by 2020. As consistent with officers, India doesn't want to miss the opportunity this time like in case of 2G and 3G, in which it lagged in the back of different countries. For 5G, India wants to grow to be a leader and have its very own requirements and IPR that turns into a part of the 5G international standards. "We need to make certain that popular essential patents, amongst different matters, additionally have an Indian IPR," Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan informed business standard. India is asking at 5G technology as a first-rate possibility in terms of providing services tailor-made for rural India like teleheal...

Around 4 per cent of the time is spent on online shopping Indian  consumers spend as much as 28 hours a week on their smartphones , seven fold more than the time they end up spending in watching programmes on television as more users access internet on their mobile phone. According to the Mary Meeker report, released on Wednesday night, the delivery of  entertainment, education, healthcare and marketplaces is being reimagined in India with the mobile phone emerging as the primary device for access to consumers. In education sector, the report said education technology firm Byju’s has shown 15 per cent improvement in the quality of learning by accessing content on smartphones. In the healthcare sector, prices of laboratory tests have dropped by 50 per cent due to the aggregate inventory maintained by startups such as 1Mg and Portea. Customers made savings of around 20-30 per cent due to drug comparison on these platforms. As far as payments are concerned, the...

Nearly hundred countries, including India, have been hit by a massive cyber-attack Nearly 100 countries, including India, have been hit by a massive cyber-attack , which, according to experts, was carried out with the help of "cyber weapons" stolen from the US' National Security Agency. The cyber attack was first reported from Sweden, Britain and France, US media outlets reported. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other legitimate files. It has been reported that a new ransomware, "Wannacry", is spreading widely. Wannacry encrypts the files on infected Windows systems. This ransomware spreads by using a vulnerability in implementations of Server Message Block (SMB) in Windows systems. This exploit is named ETERNALBLUE. Read this: Meet the Indian teen who has developed world's smallest satellite for Nasa The ranso...