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Net neutrality should prevail

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My answers to TRAI questions Disclaimer: It's my view as a common man. I am no law man or an expert in this. Just my thoughts only. Image source: www.digitalinformationworld.com Dear Sir, Internet is such a boon to India. How the mobile phone revolutionized India bringing everyone together, internet has been and is growing the same way for couple of years now. Helping a few big guns and undermining the start ups is such a terrible thing to do in a country like India especially when make in India is our campaign. I sincerely request you to maintain the net neutrality like it is in the rest of the world.    Question 1: Is it too early to establish a regulatory framework for  OTT services, since internet penetration is still evolving, access  speeds are generally low and there is limited coverage of high-speed  broadband in the country? Or, should some beginning be made now  with a regulatory framework that could be adapted to changes in the  future? Please comment with

The death of Cyanogenmod and MIUI to me

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   The first time I heard of android OS was way back in 2009 probably the early days of android. I still remember the salesman trying to convince me to buy a java or symbian phone. I just ignored his suggestion and went on to buy the Samsung Galaxy Spica. It was a beautiful phone and more importantly the first android phone in India. I felt like I was carrying a laptop in my hand with the android cupcake on it. LOL! Galaxy Spica with those beautiful red accents    I explored all new launchers then and was amazed at how fast the phone was. The more fascinating thing was the green robot seen all over the OS.    A year later Samsung came up with Galaxy Nexus S. And, I got mine as well. It was a gorgeous phone and more importantly a Nexus. As I kept using the phone I wanted more and more from my phone. Eventually I went online searching if I was the only one with these crazy ideas. To my surprise I was not the only one. There were quite a few. There's a website for all these cr