India, Aug. 4 -- The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to review the country's net neutrality framework, as the telecom sector moves towards more advanced 5G network capabilities and increasingly differentiated services.

The reference to TRAI comes at a time when technologies such as network slicing are moving from the laboratory to commercial deployments, raising questions about how far operators can differentiate network performance between users without compromising the principle of non-discriminatory access to the internet.

The DoT has asked TRAI to revisit the framework while considering emerging technologies and network management practices, including network slicing ...