Time and again invaders and dictators have used their power
to usurp the power of expression from people. They have taken away natural
resources that have been the fundamental right of a person. A person has to pay
for them. In this age of technological revolution,
Reliance has come up with a new policy to enslave the Internet surge. Jio was
the brainchild of Mukesh Ambani who calculated the potential of the rising
number of users of Internet in India. He thinks that by being the first person
to launch Jio 4G technologies in India he can make Indians addicted to the Jio
experience. The initial bounty of free offers and unlimited bandwidth attracted
the maximum number of unique customers to Jio. Then after the bounty period is
over the people will have been quite used to the brand of Jio. This will make
them pay for the usage and thus increase the usage.
Internet speed and Internet consumption are just two sides
of a coin. As one increases the other one also increases. People who are just
concerned about the service will never understand this relation. But slowly the
average consumption of a person will increase three to four times more than his
current consumption. This will make them spend more on the Internet usage per
day as compared to the current expenditure.
To understand this, consider a person who smokes one cigar a
day at the price of a cigarette for 3 months. After the bounty period the
seller can charge him the actual value of the cigar and the person will spend
it. He will never think about smoking a cigarette again because he’s used to
the cigar. In fact in some cases the person under consideration can also
increase his consumption.
In this age of Internet proliferation even the United
Nations has declared the Internet as a fundamental right of the people. Nations
like Estonia and Lithuania are known for their free Public Wifi Internet. Why
is then India the world’s largest democracy in the world paying for its
Internet consumption? Possibly it is because the people never think of it. They
never realize that Internet has now become like air and water. Will you pay
everyday for breathing oxygen? But this can only be understood by the future
technologies that are coming up. Like the Internet of Things, which will change
the way data is used. But these are later things. Primary is to realize that it
is time that Internet becomes free like an open source platform which is only
under one surveillance and that is the government and not any corporates.
Cigar or cigarettes either are going to burn; or can people
get away with these? But in the end the choice should be that of the people.
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