Exempting popular apps from data charges is anti-competitive
This article seems to equate two things – that which is true today, and that which the writer imagines for the future. The future is not fact.<p>The fact of zero rating is that it is beneficial to consumers, and progressive – the poorer one is, the more zero-rating is likely to help. That is factual, observable, measurable.<p>The speculation is a slippery-slope argument, and not factual. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong, but simply that it’s a priori.<p>Zero-rating is free shipping. I don’t know of anyone that considers free shipping anti-competitive, though one could make the same argument.