TRAI upholds net neutrality, says service providers should not enter pacts that discriminate on content

New Delhi: Telecom regulator Trai on Tuesday issueed recommendations on Net neutrality, saying that service providers should not enter into pacts which discriminate on content.

Trai in its recommendation has favoured tweaking of licencing norms of players to ensure restriction on discrimination in Internet access based on content. 

Supporters of Net neutrality back the principle that the entire Internet traffic should be available to everyone on equal terms without any discrimination based on business considerations of service providers.

The Trai's recommendations comes at a time when there is a debate raging over Net neutrality globally.

The US regulator, Federal Communications Commission, has said recently that it plans to roll back the "Net neutrality" rules the were adopted in America in 2015.