About Net Neutrality in 2 minutes

Net Neutrality simply means access to all the content over the internet without blocking or favouring any particular website.It means that the internet traffic should be treated equally, without any bias or prejudice.

  • Three demands of net neutrality
  • Transparency
  • No blocking
  • No discrimination
Debate
Openness is the base for the growth of internet & vital for the innovations over the internet.
Internet is supposed to be free and equal access to one and all. However, with messenger apps like WhatsApp, eating into revenues of SMS services of telecom companies like Airtel and Vodafone, companies are livid, naturally. 
What are these OTT (over-the-top) services?
Over-the-top content or over-the-top services are the many “ apps” that you use on your smartphone. 
These app use the 2G, 3G, etc provided by your mobile network. For e.g: whatsApp, Skype, etc. 
So, over the top services are those services which need your phone network or WiFi to work. 
Telecom companies have a grudge that these apps are now providing services like calling and texting, services which were their bread and butter revenues. 
These over the top applications (apps) are basically of three types
1. Messaging and voice services ( communication applications eg whatsapp).
2. Application ecosystems (social networking eg amazon).
3. Video and Audio content ( entertainment eg. YouTube).

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