Tag: zero-rating
LocalRating – A Better Approach to Network Neutrality and ZeroRating
It is a little over two years since the Indian communication regulator (TRAI) banned any kind of discriminatory or preferential pricing for internet services India. Credit for this ruling can be attributed to a very public campaign against Facebook’s implementation...
Why We Need Universal Basic Internet Now
In 2015, Facebook launched its Free Basics app offering a limited suite of Internet services for free in partnership with mobile network operators (MNOs) around the world. This provoked widespread debate on whether Free Basics violated network neutrality principles that...
Zero-Rating: A Modest Proposal
Imagine a world where all phones were automatically connected to the Internet, at no charge. Is this an idle fantasy? The current worldwide debate about Zero-Rating and Network Neutrality has brought the issue of affordable Internet access into sharp relief....
Zero-Rating, Net Neutrality, and the Regulatory Toolbox
The tools available to communication regulators to ensure a fair, competitive market fall into two broad categories. The first category is the ability to incentivise more competition and better behaviour in general. This can happen through lowering the barriers to...
A Better Approach to Zero-Rating
Yesterday, Internet.org announced that Kenya would be the third country in which they launched their Internet.org application, an app that offers free access to Facebook along with a selection of other services. In Kenya, this includes Wikipedia, Daily Nation, SuperSport and...