While Airtel might have taken a step back in rolling out its VoIP data packs for now and forced TRAI into a consultation process for OTTs , a clear violation of net neutrality principles we've talked about, a Reddit thread brought to our attention another Internet service provider in Andhra Pradesh which has been charging its customers for additional P2P bandwidth. Andhra Pradesh-based Bluwifi in their terms of service say that they do no support fair usage policy and believes that "Peer2Peer services consume most of the internet traffic. While 30% of the use this service the other 70% pay for this." Hence they've come out with a provisioning system which allows them to distinguish P2P services and charge them separately. From their terms of service: "Peer2Peer Service is sold separately. Meaning a single account can be billed for additional P2P bandwidth. For Example, If you have bought a 2Mbps Internet Service from us, you can buy additional bandwidth for P2P dedicated services, say 512Kbps (or as deep as your pocket allows). So your total bandwidth will be 2.5Mbps but you will be able to browse or web download only for 2Mbps and use Peer2Peer for 512Kbps. We understand that the 30% populus may not thank us but we are sure the rest 70% will." Bluwifi says it has discontinued the charges Medianama did reach out to Bluwifi on the phone number on their website and spoke to one of their service engineers who told us that they have now discontinued the separate…
