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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by toomuchtodo on Thursday February 07, 2019 @11:23PM (#19111506)
Your suggested solution does not address the local cell network contention issue zero rating attempts to mitigate.
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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by Firadeoclus on Friday February 08, 2019 @06:29AM (#19113257)
How does zero rating "attempt to mitigate" local contention issues? Zero rating does not reduce local network traffic.
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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by toomuchtodo on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:40AM (#19115182)
Forcing lower bandwidth versions of video and audio streams reduces local spectrum use. Do I really need anything above 480p on my iPhone? Probably not, so the carrier incentivizes me with zero rating.
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