US Telecom major AT&T has weighed in on India's Net Neutrality debate, asking the Indian telecom regulator TRAI to create exceptions to Net Neutrality for a wide range of services, including online calling, video streaming, Internet of Things, enterprise and managed services, and even though this particular consultation is about throttling, it has asked for exemptions for such services even from the discriminatory pricing regulation, saying that the TRAI "should exempt enterprise services, specialized services and Internet of Things etc from any NN policy or regulation." Widening the scope of managed services to include everything In particular, it cites the Department of Telecom report on Net Neutrality a couple of years ago (full report / summary), which said that it was of the view that "managed services are a necessary requirement for businesses and enterprises and suitable exceptions may be made for treatment of such services in the net neutrality context." What AT&T is trying to do, though, is to widen the scope of the term "managed services" in a manner that the managed services ecosystem includes all possible services, and at the same time, gets preferential treatment over the open Internet: In its submission, AT&T says that the definition of Internet services should be limited to "only mass-market retail broadband Internet access services with the capability to transmit and receive data from all or substantially all Internet end-points and to expressly exclude from the definition specialised services, such as Internet VoIP or IPTV, the internet of things (IoT) and also enterprise…
