TRAI asks Airtel, Vodafone to withhold premium plans

TRAI has blocked Bharti Airtel’s Platinum and Vodafone Idea’s RedX premium plans which offer faster data speeds and priority services to customers.

While asking two companies to withhold the two schemes till further order, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said such scheme might harm the service quality of mobile users.

The regulator, which is studying whether these two plans violate net neutrality, also asked telecom firms to clarify in one week whether the customers of these two plans entitled higher 4G speeds at the cost of service deterioration to other mobile users.