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Re:Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in ... by fleitz on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @07:14PM (#10855003)
Even if there were only one package of internet available globally there would still be tiered internet, you can pay for that one package, or you can not pay for it.

The only way we'd have universal untiered internet is if there was some sort of government fee / tax that you just had to pay to get internet and that was your only option.

Everyone has vastly different (tiered) internet experiences, for example the internet on my phone is faster than the internet on my desktop when uploading.

On my phone I pay for additional data use on my desktop I don't.

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Re:Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in ... by bhashkarsharma on Thursday January 07, 2016 @05:13AM (#10857104)
The difference is that if you choose to go to any URL, you can (not considering device capability and support; flash etc) from any of your devices. And what you pay to go to one website is the same amount that you pay to go to a different website as long as you use the same amount of data. Data rates being different across networks is a different issue.
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