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by jace 11y ago
Nothing in net neutrality prevents you from buying a faster pipe where the provider guarantees priority for your packets using QoS or whatever they please. Net neutrality only prevents your provider from making this decision on your behalf.
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by jace 11y ago
> So Facebook complained that its emails were blocked? Even better: Facebook complained that Facebook's email infrastructure blocked Facebook from sending further email from Facebook's campaign, and Facebook failed to notice th
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by jace 11y ago
Wall Street certainly has their hopes up: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/facebooks-fb-free-basics-drive... http://www.thestreet.com/story/13419399/1/will-facebook-fb-s... Both articles fa
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by jace 11y ago
TRAI is India's telecom regulator and is currently running a consultation on whether differential pricing of data should be allowed. Facebook has run a $44 million ad campaign in the country asking the public to lobby TRAI about someth
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by jace 11y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/08/google-fac... http://mashable.com/2014/05/08/fcc-letter-net-neutrality/#as...
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by jace 11y ago
It's remarkable that a company that stands strongly in favour of net neutrality in the US is so strongly against it in India. Speak of double standards. So strong against it, they've spent $44 million in ads to tell the public to
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by jace 11y ago
That stat is misleading when you compare percentages against raw figures: 1 million: Free Basics users in India in 2015 (source: FB press release) 5.8 million: Data users acquired by Reliance, FB's sole partner in India, in 2015 (sourc
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by jace 11y ago
One estimate said 50 crore rupees ($7.5m), another $20 million. We don't know for sure since neither Facebook nor the advertising industry association is willing to reveal actual figures.
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Facebook initiates blitzkrieg ad campaign for Free Basics in India(mashable.com)
28 points by jace 11y ago|5 comments
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by jace 11y ago
Mumtaz is a female name. And since that suggests you aren't very familiar with India, I'll recommend not assuming that Internet.org is the only way people are going to get Internet. It's not even taken seriously in India and
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by jace 11y ago
Wireless spectrum is a scarce public resource, allocated by government license, effectively granting the telco a monopoly. Simple market forces don't apply here.
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by jace 11y ago
Bad analogy, then? (Also, polio workers are getting shot in Pakistan.)
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by jace 11y ago
Under Internet.org, none of us activists would have that voice anyway. It's a carefully curated walled garden, not the internet. It doesn't include YouTube, email, or any videos at all. We are agitating to ensure everyone else get
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by jace 11y ago
The pipe's fat enough. There's plenty of dark fiber. It's the last mile (wireless) that isn't cheap enough yet, because telcos want to protect themselves from being turned into dumb pipes before the users arrive -- inter
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by jace 11y ago
> "some access is better than none at all" Yup, like an hour a day instead of all day. Or 100 MB instead of 100 GB. Not: Facebook instead of Google.
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by jace 11y ago
But you're assured you've just seen the entire city and you're done and can go back now.
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by jace 11y ago
They've completely pulled out for some services and conditionally for some others.
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by jace 11y ago
Because there is no tradition of funding civil society organisations in India, CIS is mostly foreign-funded. That puts them under the purview of FCRA, which means they are explicitly forbidden from lobbying and politics, at risk of having t
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by jace 11y ago
Wikipedia's charter requires them to increase access to Wikipedia, so signing up for internet.org was the right thing to do as long as it is not illegal . Let's put them aside for now and focus on the others.
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by jace 11y ago
I think we're counting about 100k short of actual figures.
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by jace 11y ago
With any luck we'll also turn out to be a campaign to be remembered. :)
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by jace 11y ago
Precisely, which is why we're opposed to telcos scamming users with free lunches.
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by jace 11y ago
For everyone interested in tracking the campaign: stats are posted here: https://twitter.com/bulletinbabu
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by jace 12y ago
JSFoo 2015 will be the fifth year. That's the oldest. Rootconf 2015 in the third year is the youngest.
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by jace 12y ago
Meta Refresh and Construkt have an open Call for Proposals: https://metarefresh.talkfunnel.com/2015/ https://construkt.talkfunnel.com/2015/
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by jace 12y ago
If you are in India, HasGeek's conferences are all for developers, and often pretty much the only conference on the topic in India (websites are still for 2014): Feb 2015: Meta Refresh, on web UI ( https://metarefresh.in ) an
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by jace 12y ago
How do I do Indian-style comma formatting with Numeral.js? Like so: 10,00,00,000, with thousands grouped in three digits and everything else in two digits.
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by jace 13y ago
I like it. I'm going to switch.
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by jace 13y ago
I can assure you that is our concern too at HasGeek. It won't happen overnight but we will get there.
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by jace 13y ago
You have my upvotes, Steve.

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