Reliance Jio believes that a Net Neutrality exception should be created for "Specialized Services", payments services, online customer care services. The Indian telecom regulator TRAI is is currently holding a public consultation on whether Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecom operators (telcos) should be allowed to block, slow-down or speed-up certain websites and apps, referred to as blocking, throttling and traffic management. Thus, this consultation about discriminatory speeds of Internet access, and is a follow up to the one concluded last year, which looked into discriminatory pricing of Internet access. A lowdown on Jio's current stand: 1. Net Neutrality exceptions recommended by Jio For Specialised services: Jio points out that specialised services "need singular treatment on basis of their requirement for higher standards of quality and network resource requirement. Real time services can be provided separate treatment as long as these services are not at the expense of the regular Internet"..."Specialized services are exclusive high quality and bandwidth services which provide value added services to end users supplementing the benefits of open Internet. Specialized services are not generic and earmarked for specific end usage and applications. This kind of specialized services fosters investment and can benefit all stakeholders, specifically end users." Also, "We also believe that there should be Internet Neutrality, where the service sold is billed as Internet Access without discriminating based on content. However, this should also not bar offering other non-Internet and specialized services over the same physical broadband access and infrastructure." For enterprise services and managed services: 'Enterprise services are customised as…
