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Do you think they'd be better off without Free Basics at all, or more that they'd be better off if it worked differently?
by oconnor663 9y ago
Do you think they'd be better off without Free Basics at all, or more that they'd be better off if it worked differently?
- cguess 9y agoI'm not even sure that Serbia has "free basics". It's a fairly well developed country with a 110% mobile penetration rate (last I checked, probably higher now), 4G and the prices are dirt cheap and affordable for the vast majority of the population.
- r3bl 9y agoSerbia doesn't. Other countries in this experiment (like Cambodia and Venezuela) do.
- cguess 9y agoCambodia, where the last independent newspaper was just shut down: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-devastating-shutdown-of-the-cambodia-daily https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-devastating-shu...
- r3bl 9y agoI do think that consumers would be better off with something like 100 MB of free data per month than an unlimited access to Facebook. And I do think that Facebook wouldn't lose a lot compared to the current system. 98.41%[0] of the total social media traffic would still go to Facebook. [0] I chose that percentage because that's the percentage for my country, with YouTube at the second place with .53%: http://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/bosnia-and-herzegovina http://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/bosnia-and-...