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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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