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.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.The speculation is a slippery-slope argument, and not factual. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong, but simply that it’s a priori.Zero-rating is free shipping. I don’t know of anyone that considers free shipping anti-competitive, though one could make the same argument.