court order?
airtel can simply start throttling traffic from facebook and google. there is no law preventing them from doing so. government is not even involved.
they are already throttling torrent, blocking random websites. there is no government regulation that can be used to complain against them.
why would government ask online companies to pay ISPs to offer their services? government needs to be involved to prevent such thing from happening.
and knowing our government, they would love it if social networks like facebook are restricted in india considering they so much hate freedom of expression on the internet.
But if it starts throttling ..then users will complain and maybe they might even port out to some other operator. FB and google are big deal to people and airtel themselves said 40% of the net usage goes to these 2 sites.
so its a double edged sword for airtel. If they throttle ..they might loose users.
On the other hand ..if airtel slaps a case in court saying that google and fb should pay them part of revenues ..and by love of god it somehow passes the court ..then google would have no choice but to follow and appeal to court
airtel can simply start throttling traffic from facebook and google. there is no law preventing them from doing so. government is not even involved.
they are already throttling torrent, blocking random websites. there is no government regulation that can be used to complain against them.
why would government ask online companies to pay ISPs to offer their services? government needs to be involved to prevent such thing from happening.
and knowing our government, they would love it if social networks like facebook are restricted in india considering they so much hate freedom of expression on the internet.
But if it starts throttling ..then users will complain and maybe they might even port out to some other operator. FB and google are big deal to people and airtel themselves said 40% of the net usage goes to these 2 sites.
so its a double edged sword for airtel. If they throttle ..they might loose users.
On the other hand ..if airtel slaps a case in court saying that google and fb should pay them part of revenues ..and by love of god it somehow passes the court ..then google would have no choice but to follow and appeal to court