Flipkart and Airtel are messing with your Internet. Here's your chance to mess with them.

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swatkats

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Flipkart CEO says "zero rated" apps are good. Let's help him out, shall we?

Steps:

Download each of these apps on your Android phone and immediately cancel the download. You will see the rating stars appear below: Flipkart and Airtel
Give them a well deserved rating of 1 ★
In the review field, you could paste this: "Net neutrality matters. www.netneutrality.in [insert clever hashtag]"
Uninstall both apps.
Sort the reviews by "Newest First" and mark reviews that talk about net neutrality on those apps as helpful so they show up on the top!

Pros: Enough people do this, we get their attention.

Cons: You actually have to install those apps to rate them. EDIT: No you don't! Just start the download and cancel immediately. !

- Via Reddit.
 
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For the ones with urge to go extra mile, leave +1/helpful vote for the app reviews supporting net neutrality.
Thing has been catching on it seems.

Arrange the reviews by 'latest/recent first' sorting pref and fire away.
 
swatkats said:
Flipkart CEO says "zero rated" apps are good. Let's help him out, shall we?

Steps:

Download each of these apps on your Android phone and immediately cancel the download. You will see the rating stars appear below: Flipkart and Airtel (Here's the iPhone app for Flipkart)
Give them a well deserved rating of 1 ★
In the review field, you could paste this: "Net neutrality matters. www.netneutrality.in [insert clever hashtag]"
Uninstall both apps.
Sort the reviews by "Newest First" and mark reviews that talk about net neutrality on those apps as helpful so they show up on the top!

Pros: Enough people do this, we get their attention.

Cons: You actually have to install those apps to rate them. EDIT: No you don't! Just start the download and cancel immediately. !

- Via Reddit.
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Can i Report You under Spam
 
xtremevicky said:
How does giving a one star rating going to help in this case?
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Beleive me you need to be smarter to understand the implications of that. ;)
Its basically negative publicity(word of mouth and reviews are a important part of that).
The comment that follows are regarding net neutrality. Mobile app is actually a big thing for flipkart. Admist all of it, they were even considering becoming a mobile e com site only. Nobody, wants negative publicity. And certainly not a ecom site that earns its bread and butter from the very consumers.

If you even took 5mins to read the recent comments. You would come to know that flipkart does take time out to read every comment. And they have even replied to a lot of comments out there.

So, surely they know what's happening. They now know that they are losing customers because of there actions and I am preety sure that they might not have anticipated such a rage from the common public at such a scale.

This have become a sticy situation for them. And I would sum it up as:-
'Dhobhi kA kutta na ghar ka, na ghat ka'.

I would now like people to bash this site on twitter and on there facebook profile as well. :-D
 
In what could be first major repercussion of concentrated efforts to push Net Neutrality in India, Flipkart has today officially announced that they have walked away from Airtel Zero deal.

In their official statement issued, they have admitted that their existence is owed to the free nature of Internet, and they can’t tamper with it.

Flipkart said, “We at Flipkart have always strongly believed in the concept of net neutrality, for we exist because of the Internet.”

Flipkart faced widespread criticism from netizens for considering tying up with Airtel Zero platform, which is widely considered to be a step towards tiered Internet and something that goes against the principles of Net Neutrality.

Netizens revolted against Flipkart and Airtel in a ferocious manner, for disrupting the freedom of Internet, and mass down-voting of their apps ensured on every platform. The app received so many 1-star rating in the last few days that prominent media publications decided to cover this as a news.

It seems Flipkart management hadn’t expected such huge, viral backlash for a decision to give free apps for all. It took some time for them understand the core basics of Net Neutrality, but, now they have made the perfect decision, which benefits all.

The official statement from Flipkart demonstrates two important facts:

  • They are leaving Airtel Zero immediately and suspending all discussions with them
  • They have openly come out to support Net Neutrality in India, have promised their help and assistance.
Earlier, Sachin Bansal had tried to reason their support for Airtel Zero by comparing it with toll free numbers and other such services. His response was again ridiculed andruthlessly opposed by activists of Net Neutrality.

It would be interesting to observe what Airtel plans to do now, and especially Telecom Ministry considering that such discriminatory pricing of Internet is threatening to kill PM Modi’s Digital India vision as well.

Over to Airtel now, for they have to take a very strong decision now: decision to save Internet in India.

Here is the official statement issued by Flipkart:

We at Flipkart have always strongly believed in the concept of net neutrality, for we exist because of the Internet. Over the past few days, there has been a great amount of debate, both internally and externally, on the topic of zero rating, and we have a deeper understanding of the implications. Based on this, we have decided on the following:

- We will be walking away from the ongoing discussions with Airtel for their platform Airtel Zero

- We will be committing ourselves to the larger cause of Net Neutrality in India. We will be internally discussing over the next few days, the details of actions we will take to support the cause

- We will be working towards ensuring that the spirit of net neutrality is upheld and applied equally to all companies in India irrespective of the size or the service being offered and there is absolutely no discrimination whatsoever
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http://trak.in/tags/business/2015/04/14/flipkart-ditches-airtel-zero-net-neutrality-win/

First victory against CRAPtel.
 
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