Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Rahul Khullar does not see any illegality in Bharti Airtel’s move to charge customers a higher rate for making voice calls from its network using apps like Skype, Viber, etc, than what it charges for surfing. In an exclusive interview with
FE, Khullar while agreeing that the move is against the principle of net neutrality pointed out that so far there’s no policy or regulatory framework in the country which says that net neutrality should be maintained.
“Let’s be clear on this. What the company plans to do is certainly not in conformity with net neutrality. But one cannot today say the move is illegal as there’s no policy either by the government that net neutrality is our principle or a regulatory framework put in place by the regulator,” Khullar said.
