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Re:Net Neutrality already attacked in Portugal by Aaargh20318 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:22AM (#15906153)
> you pay around $8 a month to specifically get more “Social” data, so you can use your regular allotment for everything else

The problem with this is that this creates an incentive for the operator to lower the regular allotment so they can sell more of these packages.

> I still don't understand why the endpoint being connected to matters at all.

It doesn't matter, it's just a way of extracting more money from customers.

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Re:Net Neutrality already attacked in Portugal by jimktrains2 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:25AM (#15906189)
>>> you pay around $8 a month to specifically get more “Social” data, so you can use your regular allotment for everything else

> The problem with this is that this creates an incentive for the operator to lower the regular allotment so they can sell more of these packages.

The quote is from the linked article explaining the situation. I think 0-rating is a terrible idea for the reasons you said, among others.

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