Monty Solomon posted:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j575gg/broadband-zero-rating-actually-costs-customers-more-study-finds
I think you have to be a clueless and gullible consumer, or a devious crook
like the FCC Chairman, to really believe that zero rating saves you money. It
sure doesn't save you money, unless you obediently do exactly as you are told,
by the service provider. And you can be sure that anything the ISP isn't raking
in, because of zero rating, he'll be making up in other ways.
If the ISP feels obliged to set data caps (which, as the article says, serve no
technically valid purpose), it would be far better to allow the customer to
decide which streaming services he wants zero rated. Such as, each customer
gets up to x streaming services zero rated. The customer chooses, not the
telecom service. That's a neutral service.
Bert
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