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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by bthrm on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:39PM (#17287084)
As a European: he’s right. You’ll love zero-rating. I do. :-)
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by seba_dos1 on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:42PM (#17287129)
As an European, I don't. How any sensible alternative to Facebook is supposed to out-compete it if Facebook is commonly zero-rated on mobile?
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by Someone1234 on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:24PM (#17287626)
You love this[0]? Ick.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating#/media/File:Screen...

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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by bthrm on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:15PM (#17288129)
Yes, paying extra to get unlimited traffic to certain services is good. It’s good there’s choice.
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by Someone1234 on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:02PM (#17289018)
You, as the consumer, aren't making the choice. The ISP is picking which companies get the privileged position. It is in effect king-making certain services.
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by bthrm on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:29PM (#17289183)
No because European law does not allow them to do that. If you zero rate YouTube you have to zero rate all video streaming sites, for example.
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by Someone1234 on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:37PM (#17289827)
So in effect you're arguing it works due to Net Neutrality?
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by bajsejohannes on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:38PM (#17287772)
You're being deceived. The price you pay is either baked into your monthly bill or comes in the less tangible form of reduced competition for those zero-rated services (i.e. startups have a much harder time entering the stage).
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Re:Ajit Pai says you’re going to love the death of net neutr... by bkor on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:27PM (#17287657)
As a European: T-Mobile is charging companies for their music zero rating. If you love paying twice for things it might be a good thing. Zero rating is crap.
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