America's biggest content providers could face a toll to enter India cyberspace, if plans mooted by the Indian ISP trade association bear fruit.
Although the Internet Service Providers Association of India is split on the issue, several of the larger ISPs want to block access to eBay, MSN or Yahoo! unless the providers pay a toll.
"In order to increase revenue streams ...we should ask [the portals] to pay if they want traffic on their sites from India," reports the Hindustani Times.
Traditional bricks and mortar producers have to sweeten the distribution channels, so why not MSN? And with foreign steel companies now paying an additional tariff to enter the US market, isn't this a simple reciprocation?
What do you think guys? Are you all for 'net free trade or do you think that making the US megasites pay for access to millions of consumers is fair? In case you don't know remember that the Asian continent is a massive IT growth area as companies decide to outsource to firms there.
News source: The Register
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