Even as India's telecom regulator TRAI looks to find ways to detect and prohibit behaviour that violates Net Neutrality, the FCC said that it would reclassify mobile Internet providers as "private mobile services". This reclassification is designed to give mobile Internet operators much more freedom in how they operate their networks and manage traffic in them compared to wireline broadband operators, and could protect them from any regulatory measures related to the Internet. Since 2014, Indian telecom operators have also argued that mobile Internet needs to be treated differently from wireline networks. This move is a part of a wider FCC vote to begin a process to undo similar rules in the US that prohibited such discriminatory behaviour by Internet providers. Ajit Pai, the FCC's chairman, said that these "utility-style" regulations had led to a decrease in broadband infrastructure investment in the billions…
