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Depends on precisely where they're deployed, but this kind of thing can damage the local market and slow down the roll-out of normal infrastructure. A zero-cost
by _delirium 11y ago
Depends on precisely where they're deployed, but this kind of thing can damage the local market and slow down the roll-out of normal infrastructure. A zero-cost "Facebook internet" is a partial substitute for real internet, which worsens the market for a local ISP trying to get off the ground. A kind of price-dumping, basically.
- bduerst 11y agoThe "Tom Shoe's" effect: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/economics-toms-shoes http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/10/economic...