Re:Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in ...
by jace on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:05AM
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That stat is misleading when you compare percentages against raw figures:
1 million: Free Basics users in India in 2015 (source: FB press release)
5.8 million: Data users acquired by Reliance, FB's sole partner in India, in 2015 (source: IAMAI)
109 million: Data users acquired by all telcos in India in 2015 (Sep 2014-Sep 2015, source: same IAMAI report)
So if Free Basics converted 50% of their users to the full Internet, that's about 500k users, or less than 0.5% of the industry's success rate.
Asking for dangerous policy exceptions because your flawed scheme has an actual success rate of 0.5% and presenting this as 50% is disingenuous at best.
1 million: Free Basics users in India in 2015 (source: FB press release)
5.8 million: Data users acquired by Reliance, FB's sole partner in India, in 2015 (source: IAMAI)
109 million: Data users acquired by all telcos in India in 2015 (Sep 2014-Sep 2015, source: same IAMAI report)
So if Free Basics converted 50% of their users to the full Internet, that's about 500k users, or less than 0.5% of the industry's success rate.
Asking for dangerous policy exceptions because your flawed scheme has an actual success rate of 0.5% and presenting this as 50% is disingenuous at best.