Trai stance on net neutrality hardly revolutionary: Activists

If the Trai had enforced positive discrimination, it could have corrected the anomaly in the market, controlled by a few large players

All have welcomed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai’s) recommendations on net neutrality but internet activists are not over the moon with this development. They claim it’s not hard to see this as a lost opportunity for the regulator to bring down transit costs for operators that would have translated into lower data costs for consumers.
 
Pranesh Prakash, policy director, Centre of Internet and Society, said when dealing with other forms of equality, there is a clear distinction between affirmative action and discrimination. Reservations are one such example, where positive discrimination is allowed in order to bring about