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Zepto controversy: Bengaluru entrepreneur claims huge price difference for Android vs iPhone users. Netizens demand answerA Bengaluru entrepreneur recently flagged a significant price difference on Zepto, a popular quick-commerce platform, between Android and i...- The price of your phone: How device-based pricing is quietly widening the digital divideRide-hailing apps and e-commerce platforms are under scrutiny for employing device-based differential pricing, where fares and costs vary d...
- Trai to run special audit on differential tariff order complianceIn September 2021, Trai had directed telcos to offer only those tariffs that had been reported to the regulator, and to ensure that these a...
- Trai bars telcos from offering tarriffs which are not reported to itIn a direction issued Thursday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has asked all telcos to offer only those “tariffs, via the...
- Trai to tackle regulatory imbalance in OTT consultation processThe regulator is holding an open house discussion in Bengaluru on April 24, followed by one in Delhi next month.
- Telecom Commission seeks clarification on Trai data affordability solutionTrai suggested that the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) be used to foot the bill for providing government-incentivised free data ...
- Analysts divided over validity of Jio's pre-installed appsAccording to Kotak, any pre-installed apps on a device that prevent consumers from installing competing apps “flirts with the boundaries of...
- Free data models in sync with net neutrality principles: Trai“The idea was to formalise a structure to provide free data to consumers in accordance with the principles of net neutrality,” RS Sharma to...
- Trai extends deadline for submission of comments on net neutrality paper"On request from the stakeholders, the last date for receipt of written comments, if any, from the stakeholders has been extended up to 5th...
- Trai extends deadline for free data consultationThe regulator said it aimed to connect the unconnected, but raised the prospect of another battle over net neutrality.
- Telcos may soon offer calls over Internet like Whatsapp, SkypeInternet-based calls offered by the likes of Skype and Whatsapp at sharply lower costs than telcos was the trigger for the net neutrality d...
- Trai mulls ways to provide free Internet within net neutralityTrai said the intention behind the latest paper was to enable smaller entrepreneurs to emerge without putting a gatekeeping function in han...
- Bharti Airtel may not get TRAI nod to offer foreign company's exclusive video content to some usersAirtel had written to Trai last week, seeking clarification on its plan to exclusively offer its customers certain video content through a ...
- All internet apps to fall under data pricing ruleTelcos and application makers will be able take advantage of the controversial exception to the new rules barring discriminatory pricing of...
- Trai feels net neutrality ruling quite clear, having second thoughts about issuing clarificationThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had recently weighed in on the side of net neutrality and barred discriminatory pricing of...
- Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma says apps shouldn't be allowed on closed networks“If a kind of content is available on the Internet, it can't be made available to a closed network at a differential price — that's the cla...
- Net neutrality: Trai ready to discuss new data pricing norm with stakeholders“The regulation is quite clear, but that doesn’t mean we won’t discuss any issues people may have (on the new regulation),” Sharma told ET.
- Mobile operators urge Trai to clear the air on app-based pricingThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had last week weighed in on the side of net neutrality and disallowed differential pricing of dat...
- Facebook confirms pulling the plug on Free Basics in IndiaThe development comes on the back of Reliance Communications' decision to make Facebook's Free Basics platform a paid one.
- Bring voice calling apps like WhatsApp, Viber under regulation: Telcos“All we are saying is that since they provide the same service using our network, they should be made to comply with regulations as well,” ...
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