Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
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Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#2Having skimmed the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article on Zero Rating[1] I immediately knew what it was about but I'd never heard it called that before. Think T-Mobile's free music[2] service if you live in the US.
Once again I think this is going to be a hard one. If you understand the devilish details under the surface and it's effects on Net Neutrality you can make an informed decision to oppose this. But it's hard to convince the general public that free is a "bad thing". I think India's Department of Telecom is going to have a tough PR battle on it's hands.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating [2] http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/t-mobile-sets-your-music-f...
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#3Google saw the PR fallout from Facebook's public stance, and decided it would be better to silently lobby. I hope this has some publicity, and they are forced to publicly take a stand in support of neutral pipes.
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#4Having skimmed the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article on Zero Rating[1] I immediately knew what it was about but I'd never heard it called that before. Think T-Mobile's free music[2] service if you live in the US. Once again I think this is going to be a hard one. If you understand the devilish details under the surface and it's effects on Net Neutrality you can make an informed decision to oppose this. But it's…
Imagine if Orkut was zero-rated, back when Facebook started. Or if Yahoo was zero-rated when Google started. Internet giants are turning their back on users, now that they have money.
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#5I know Google jumped the shark on the "Don't be evil" concept long ago.
Still, (as an Indian living in India) I am very disappointed at Google selling out like this
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#6The Indian Telecom landscape has no resemblance to the US or Europe. There is no AT&T/Comcast monopoly. Why? Because the regulator has done a pretty decent job ensuring access to voice and data stays cheap through competition.
As far as I know, in all the big cities you can choose between 7-8 major provider's. No contract. Dirt cheap access. Also worth mentioning is the existence of a reasonably large public sector ISP, with more or less a state mandate to loose money on providing access.
In such a competitive landscape how do the net neutrality arguments of the west apply? Lot of misinformed outrage imho.
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#7I know Google jumped the shark on the "Don't be evil" concept long ago. Still, (as an Indian living in India) I am very disappointed at Google selling out like this
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Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#8The Indian Telecom landscape has no resemblance to the US or Europe. There is no AT&T/Comcast monopoly. Why? Because the regulator has done a pretty decent job ensuring access to voice and data stays cheap through competition. As far as I know, in all the big cities you can choose between 7-8 major provider's. No contract. Dirt cheap access. Also worth mentioning is the existence of a reasonably large public sector I…
monopoly-regulation and net-neutrality are two unconnected issues. you can have a monopoly that does/does-not respect net-neutrality; you can also have a competitive market place where all members respect/do-not-respect net-neutrality.
net-neutrality is not about ensuring broad access or low pricing, whether accomplished by regulation or the free market. net-neutrality is about ensuring equality of access and equality of speech, accomplished by preventing those who control the pipes to pick and choose the priority of what is going through the pipes.
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#9what's the difference between access to "basic internet" and "internet"?
Re: Google joins Facebook in support of Zero Rating in India
#10The Indian Telecom landscape has no resemblance to the US or Europe. There is no AT&T/Comcast monopoly. Why? Because the regulator has done a pretty decent job ensuring access to voice and data stays cheap through competition. As far as I know, in all the big cities you can choose between 7-8 major provider's. No contract. Dirt cheap access. Also worth mentioning is the existence of a reasonably large public sector I…
You are conflating ISP monopolies with software service monopolies.