Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless

Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by chewbacha on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:00PM (#19107487)

Not really, data limits are a necessary evil of infrastructure.

It's more the trust-building that's going on between the giants of industry. It's the 1920s all over again, just with different tech.

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by jusssi on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:07AM (#19112346)

For some reason, there are places where this necessary evil doesn't seem to be, well, necessary. Neither my wired not my 4g connection have a data cap.

Taking "necessary" out of necessary evil, leaves just evil.

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by shmerl on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:19PM (#19108178)

Bandwidth limit is the natural limit. Not monthly data limit - that's simply a method to fleece users. Nothing to do with infrastructure.

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by chewbacha on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:58PM (#19108531)

By that logic, api rate limits are a method to fleece api users... which is not true at all. Rate limits are put in place to protect infrastructure for overloading, that's been the main reason I have implemented circuit breakers and rate limiting.

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by shmerl on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:04PM (#19108582)

Except it's a fallacious logic. ISP networks can perfectly handle the load already. There is no "data flood apocalypse" or anything the like. ISP execs said so much explicitly. They point blank admitted, data caps are not driven by technical needs but simply by greed.

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