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Precisely. I am trying to see the "complex" moral dilemma part of this issue that Wikipedia claims but I can't. For a fixed price, people should get a fixed spe
by chime 12y ago
Precisely. I am trying to see the "complex" moral dilemma part of this issue that Wikipedia claims but I can't. For a fixed price, people should get a fixed speed - on wireless or broadband. That's it. Every byte of data should be treated the same. Disadvantaged consumers should not get free FB or Wiki. Instead they should get free 64kbps or 1mbps (or whatever the market can bear).
"Zero rating" is harmful because content providers and telecoms get to decide what is worth providing for "free". It's never really free because in the end someone is paying for bandwidth.
Voice calls, text, and IP are all just data. If I pay for 20/5mbps, give me that. If I have a fixed speed of 20mbps, I do not have "unlimited data" so there is no need to monitor and cap. It is 20mbps / 8 * 86400 seconds * 30 days = 6TB per month max. 64kbps is 20GB/month max. Nobody's browsing 24/7 at max. speed on mobile so there is very little chance a mobile user in free data plan of 64kbps is really going to use 20GB of data per month.
Wikipedia should consistently support Net Neutrality throughout the world regardless of local deals. If they really want to help consumers in poor countries, fight for them to get a slow data plan that can be used not only for Wikipedia but also Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, or anything else the user wants to see.