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Net Neutrality ers Downrate Flipkart App After Co Founder s Airtel Zero

Net Neutrality ers Downrate Flipkart App After Co-Founder s Airtel Zero 1g4j3u

By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 10 April 2015 13:47 IST

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The announcement of Airtel Zero - a platform where businesses can pay Airtel to offer s free data access to their apps - has turned many people off Flipkart. The online retailer was reputedly one of the first partners for Airtel Zero, and Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal has been one of the few prominent persons to speak out in of zero-rating plans like Airtel Zero. 5x6b35

In retaliation, many s have taken to giving one-star ratings to Flipkart's apps on Android and iOS. To make sure that the message is not lost, people also mention net neutrality in their reviews.

On Google Play if you look at the newest reviews, then you can see that seven of the ten latest reviews all bring up net neutrality. In iTunes, the latest ten reviews all mention net neutrality.

The issue of net neutrality has been gaining visibility in India in the last few months, starting when Airtel first announced a special data rate for Skype calls. The company back-pedalled on this after outrage, saying it would instead wait for a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) consultation paper on regulation of apps before making any plans.

Since then, the first draft of the Trai paper was released, issues unrelated to telecom.

The Trai draft appears to questionable, at best.

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