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LIVE: TRAI’s Net Neutrality open house discussion in Bangalore

TRAI is holding a Net Neutrality open house discussion in Bangalore today at 10am. We’ll be posting updates below. Watch the livestream here. Excerpts quoted below are not necessarily verbatim, but we will do our best to make sure that they are represented accurately. Read our primer on the main issues of this net neutrality consultation here. Read our live coverage of TRAI's previous Net Neutrality open house discussion in Mumbai here. Live Updates 1:00: The OHD has ended. Advisor Asit Kadayan delivers vote of thanks. 12:56: IIT-B: We need to build tools. TRAI should sponsor budgets for building tools for detecting NN violations. Academia etc can help in building them. Mahesh Uppal: I think TRAI is the appropriate body to regulate this, as Internet access comes under it and most importantly, Internet infrastructure comes under this. The whole business of NN is about access to infrastructure. Hence TRAI has a mandate for this is the appropriate body. It is also designed to have technical expertise to do that. We recognize that there's a difference between the ex-ante and ex-post part about this. Any serious issues about discrimination and competition would be arbitrated by CCI. But the ex-ante part, the part before any abuse or violation, remains with TRAI. 12:54: Airtel: The policy framework is clear that who is going to be a part of the policy. It's premature to say how it will be regulated. Whatever is there under TRAI Act etc. So there is an established framework on reviewing policies, like consultation…

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