This is a guest post by Nikhil Pahwa , found at Medianama , where this article was first published . Nikhil is working hard to make the understanding of Net Neutrality better. What it was like before Mobile Internet opened up Imagine what kind of an Internet you would have in India three years from now, once the Airtel Zero idea, of creating a free Internet by allowing Internet companies to buy data, becomes the norm across telecom operators. The top 4 telecom operators are adding around 9 million mobile Internet users a quarter. India is adding around 14-15 million a quarter, and that’s around 60 million a year, probably more, with free. Where will the next 200 million users that will come online in India prefer to go? Will they buy a data pack, or will they use the free Internet? How Airtel Zero splits the Internet in India ( tweet this ) Airtel Zero, which we wrote about yesterday , is a platform that allows Internet companies to pay money to Airtel, to allow users to get free Internet.… (Read On…)
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