Net neutrality is the principle that the telecom service providers and governments should treat all websites equal and should not allow differential pricing system based on users, contents, application, platform etc. Before we proceed , let’s clear the meaning of differential pricing. Differential pricing is an economic concept which means charging different prices based on user First coined by Columbia University professor Tim Wu in 2003, the term net neutrality has various pros and cons, the cons generally outweighing the pros. The debate of network neutrality in India gathered attention after Airtel, announced in December 2014 to levy additional charges for making voice calls from its network using apps like Whatsapp and Skype. This saw a …show more content…
At the same time ,Open Internet would raise the working level of few small sites. Obviously, the internet giants will oppose net neutrality while the smaller sites will favor this concept. Arguments in favour of Net Neutrality Those who support net neutrality includes owners of cable and telephony companies, hardware companies as well as some renowned Internet engineers. They say that opposing this would result in less investments coming from private sector or individuals to open new websites since they will have a pre dominated concept in their mind that their websites will fail to compete with the already popular websites due to Digital Dictatorship. Net Neutrality issues at world level There are several issues faced by different countries in the world related to net neutrality. This is prevalent in many countries including Singapore, Brazil and United States. United states has a wide history relating to net neutrality. Between 2005 and 2012, five attempts to pass bills in Congress containing net neutrality provisions