MANU/TRAI/0017/2016

Department/Board : Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

Date : 08.02.2016

Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services Regulations, 2016

(No. 2 of 2016)

In exercise of the powers conferred upon it under sub-section (1) of section 36, read with sub-clause (i) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) of section 11, of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997), the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India hereby makes the following regulations, namely:-

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title and commencement.-

(1) These regulations may be called the Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services Regulations, 2016 (2 of 2016).

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Definitions.-

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,--

(a) "Act" means the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997);

(b) "Authority" means the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India established under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Act;

(c) "closed electronic communications network" means a communications network where data is neither received nor transmitted over the internet;

(d) "consumer" means a consumer of a service provider and includes its customers and subscribers;

(e) "content" includes all content, applications, services and any other data, including its end-point information, that can be accessed or transmitted over the internet;