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Bharti Airtel has defended its caller "Priority Postpaid" work earlier a Department of Telecommunications (DoT) panel, asserting that the offering, powered by 5G web slicing, neither violates net neutrality norms nor degrades work prime for prepaid users, sources said.
According to the submission made by Airtel successful effect to a clarification sought by the Committee connected Communications and Information Technology, the institution said not allowing the usage of mainstream features of 5G to connection services volition jeopardise the imaginable of 6G successful the country.
"Priority Postpaid is implemented successful a content-neutral mode and is afloat accordant with the existing TRAI and DoT framework. There is nary blocking, throttling, content-specific prioritisation, zero-rating oregon preferential attraction of immoderate application," Airtel said successful the submission.
Airtel had launched "Priority Postpaid" plans connected May 19, which committedness accordant velocity adjacent successful crowded markets for postpaid customers. "Airtel Priority diagnostic does not degrade the prime of work for immoderate customer, whether prepaid oregon postpaid," the institution said successful the submission, arsenic per sources.
A query nonstop to Bharti Airtel did not elicit immoderate reply. The institution said that astatine present, wide 5G capableness utilisation is astir 38% successful engaged hours. Within this, postpaid postulation accounts for lone astir 4%, which, aft the instauration of a virtual "tunnel" (slice) for Priority Postpaid, whitethorn determination to astir 6%, the institution said.
It said that prepaid and different non-priority postulation continues to person further headroom to astir 60% of full capacity, making it wide that Priority Postpaid does not and cannot origin degradation for prepaid users.
