After face-off with Facebook, watchdog says data pricing norms by January end

A day after the sparring match with social networking site Facebook over the issue of Free Basics came out in the open, India’s telecom regulator on Thursday said its norms on the issue of differential pricing of data will be firmed up by January-end.
“We will take into consideration all valuable comments on differential data pricing. We will come out with the regulation by the month-end,” said R.S Sharma, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), after an o