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I am a Burmese(Myanmar) guy living in the country. I could say that majority of the people use Facebook when they use the Internet. One of the thing that has be
by yla92 11y ago
I am a Burmese(Myanmar) guy living in the country. I could say that majority of the people use Facebook when they use the Internet. One of the thing that has been bothering me is that Facebook is cooperating with one of the local telco (Telenor) and did a program called Facebook zero[0] where the users of the aforementioned telco can use the Facebook freely.
It is good and bad, I would say. Users would love it, no doubt but I don't want to see that Facebook is dominating the market and there won't be any other advantages to others, even to local startups.
[0] : https://www.telenor.com.mm/pages/facebook-zero/164 https://www.telenor.com.mm/pages/facebook-zero/164
- rossng 11y agoThere has been a lot of noise about this same service in several other developing countries. A few have banned it so far. It will be interesting to see how the situation in Burma develops. If Facebook ends up completely dominating the market in the long term, it will be strong evidence that zero-rating is harmful to the web.
- _nedR 11y agoYes. Facebook has been trying to get telcos to foist this on us Indians as well. It has kinda blown up into a big debate about net neutrality in the country. Here is the latest hn article on it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931750
- quanticle 11y agoHey, it's awesome to get the view of someone who's there and experiencing all these changes on a day-to-day basis. Leaving Facebook aside for a moment, can you perhaps elaborate on how daily life has changed, now that cell phones have gone from something solely reserved for the elite to a commodity that pretty much everyone can access, if not own?