[pedrorijo91]

> What's more, several cell phone operators' plans include unlimited WhatsApp, but only a few GB of other data... meaning when your data limits are reached you can still use WhatsApp for the rest of the month, but not i.e. Signal or Telegram. That makes is rather hard to convince people to switch.

isn't this illegal? Portugal had such a problem, but i don't think anything happened since this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905843

[Liskni_si]

Wikipedia says net neutrality is enforced in Brazil, so it should be illegal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_by_country#Braz...

[marc_abonce]

It's zero-rating, which is a loophole to go around most net neutrality laws. Governments would have to patch that loophole or enforce a stricter interpretation of net neutrality laws, but then everybody would hate them because they'd be banning free stuff.

[pedrorijo91]

what do you mean by zero-rating?

[alephu5]

This is also the case in Peru and Colombia.