Save the Internet !!
I know its not a person or a plant or anything that has life from the outside, but it does have a life in the insideYes, Millions rather Billions of people literally live in internet, either work or social media, mostly social media. After the social media platform that opened up, people are just living their life on internet. Though many
people have said it has more cons than pros it is still of major use, it has evolved from a luxury to a need.
People have evolved and share things or talk about their opinions and stuff. Now, why am I saying “Save
the Internet”? Yes, The TRAI ( Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ) have released a consultation paper with 20 Questions spread across 118 complicated pages which they have asked the public to send them an
email by 24th April 2015. What is this Questions about ? And what is there to send an Email? So, the questions along with an explanation are as follows :-
1. What is Net Neutrality ?
Basically, Telecom Operators/ISPs are service providers that provide us , the public, to use or access the internet. I’m sure people know what is Internet and its uses, till now the telecom operators charge us for the internet but the Applications or other uses that the internet provides are free, But now the greedy service providers like Airtel, Vodafone etc are planning to charge for all the apps that are coming free to use. For example, now let’s say I’m a social media fanatic, A person who lives his life on FaceBook, WhatsApp, viber , youtube, snapchat , flipkart etc. I use internet cause these things are free and no one can restrict me, I’m using these by paying let’s say Rs100 for 1GB of internet for a certain speed, 2G/3G. Now , these telecom people want to charge for these above mentioned and also other Applications, you will be paying for the internet and also for these applications! So, you’ll be paying Rs 100/- for internet and Rs50 for WhatsApp , Rs 75 for YouTube, Rs 50 for Facebook etc , So in the place where you spend only Rs 100 for Internet and its services you’ll end up paying Rs 500/- This is ATROCITY ! When the company that is providing these services are not charging us then why should the service provider do so, when he is not providing these applications but just providing the platform( Internet ) which we are already paying for. To make it little more easier, A person earning in this country is paying tax once he is working and Independent, now the government is coming up with breathing tax, pay for the oxygen, Now that’s stupidity cause oxygen is for all and free for all.This is what their plan is now coming to the question, What is “Net Neutrality”? It actually means, All the sites on the Internet must be equally accessible, The same data cost for access to each site, no telecom licensing and same access speed for all. Do we want that? Is up to you. (All the above mentioned costs are just for example)
2.What is Airtel-Zero?
Airtel, one of the leading telecom companies in India which has the highest number of people using their services have come up with an Atrocious idea called Airtel-zero. That is basically, creating free internet by allowing Internet companies to buy data. Why is this atrocious ? Cause they are Splitting internet into two types, One is Free Internet and the other is paid Internet. So, Internet companies that buy this data and the public can use those specific few sites free. But any other sites, other than those who are rich enough to buy the data is all paid thereby restricting few sites which will be available if we are willing to pay for it. For example, if WhatsApp and FaceBook are in the Airtel-zero Program then they are free and can be used without any issues but what if you want to use Skype or Twitter and they do not fall into the Airtel-zero, the answer is simple, pay for it!! Indirectly monitoring the usage of sites and restricting us to a certain few ones, common who would want to pay for a few sites and not pay for few, This is becoming like these DTH services! Total Bullshit! Internet is a place which provides us Knowledge, ( Not those IIN Advertisements , they are just plain Dumb! ) gives us economic and social progress, access to jobs , connecting people around the globe etc. We cannot allow this to be taken away from us, for some greedy telecom companies who wants their profits to hit the space as they have already hit the sky!
3. How to Save the Internet?
This is the most important and vital thing in this whole blog of mine! How to save the internet, now you can either sign an online petition that is going on or if you want the best out of this and really want the internet accessible for everything, then please log onto www.savetheinternet.in there will be a tab that says “Respond to TRAI now” click on that, the Answers for the 20 questions is already been typed, if you want to edit you can go ahead and do the same, and send the Email to advqos@trai.gov.in. Just for clarification,I’m not being paid for this marketing thing i have done, i’m just another internet user like you who is concerned! Last day is 24/04/2015! , 7 more days!! Stop wasting time and send the mail! We need internet and it should be accessible for all!
Let us raise our voices, be as one, act as one!
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Vibhu
Does this apply for people who use internet from their phones or does this affect people like me who use internet in their computers. good write up.
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ReplyDeleteThanks appa ! :)
Let us raise our voices, be as one, act as one!
ReplyDeleteThank you friend for right information at the right time
Dear Sir,
DeleteThank you! :)
Very good article, Young man! We have already signed the petition! We have to save the internet...
ReplyDeleteYes we have to raise our voices!!!! Let us hope for the best !
Dear sir,
DeleteThanks a lot ! :)
Useful post. I read the article about net neutrality in Ananda vikatan..I send my respond through Vikatan Format. To day I am going to send Separate mail also.
ReplyDeleteThank you for creating awareness among net users
Dear sir,
DeleteThank you! My pleasure :)