Exactly three years ago, in February 2016, India decisively dodged a bullet. Fighting back against an aggressive campaign of misinformation, lobbying and advertising from global internet giants like Facebook, India became one of the first major countries to adopt unambiguous rules to ensure Net Neutrality.
The rules brought in by the telecom regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), mandated that internet access providers (from wired broadband to mobile networks) couldn’t discriminate between different applications or services accessed over the internet by their customers.
While the US did adopt Net Neutrality ahead of India in March 2015, the rules were subsequently repealed under the Trump administration.
