[bthrm]

As a European: he’s right. You’ll love zero-rating. I do. :-)

[seba_dos1]

As an European, I don't. How any sensible alternative to Facebook is supposed to out-compete it if Facebook is commonly zero-rated on mobile?

[Someone1234]

You love this[0]? Ick.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating#/media/File:Screen...

[bthrm]

Yes, paying extra to get unlimited traffic to certain services is good. It’s good there’s choice.

[Someone1234]

You, as the consumer, aren't making the choice. The ISP is picking which companies get the privileged position. It is in effect king-making certain services.

[bthrm]

No because European law does not allow them to do that. If you zero rate YouTube you have to zero rate all video streaming sites, for example.

[Someone1234]

So in effect you're arguing it works due to Net Neutrality?

[bajsejohannes]

You're being deceived. The price you pay is either baked into your monthly bill or comes in the less tangible form of reduced competition for those zero-rated services (i.e. startups have a much harder time entering the stage).

[bkor]

As a European: T-Mobile is charging companies for their music zero rating. If you love paying twice for things it might be a good thing. Zero rating is crap.