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https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast-cheap-internetone-billionaire-changed-all-that-1536159916 https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ag

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  I checked that, and the difference was that we went from among the cheapest internet costs in 2017, to even lower. 2017 figures and 2019 figures are significantly different if you are poor, however that doesn't mean that prices were high. And there isn't anything like a free lunch - Reliance has achieved these costs through a variety of means, both legal and supra legal. Their "creative" ways to abuse the network testing period for example (and the non response from the regulator), their use and harvesting of private data to inform other parts of their empire and their efforts to take over the market bode ill for India. Remember that Net neutrality was won because we got lucky and there was enough political capital for people like Nilekani to also advocate for it through the government machinery. However when NN 3.0 happens, Reliance will not let it pass. With a market without competition, they will succeed - since they have to spend less effort competing and can afford their lobbying.