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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by shmerl on Thursday February 07, 2019 @10:20PM (#19111241)
They don't have to. It's only because the alternative is to invest in CDN, which some don't want to do. Real Internet video providers do that however (Youtube, Netflix and so on).

Either way, it doesn't mean they aren't competing. Legacy TV business hates Internet video, even though they know well, they are finished and either they'll go bust or they need to switch to Internet video themselves.

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by crankylinuxuser on Friday February 08, 2019 @09:29AM (#19114388)
We used to have a worldwide CDN messaging service: Usenet.

Early on (1998-1999) ISPs axed their newsgroup servers. Nobody paid them for those CDNs. But soon after, CDN companies paid ISPs to install their content.

Money. Its all about money.

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