Hi Kim,
Ofcos I see there are many reasons which prompted them to make this move. Firstly and majorly been that they have lost their earning in calls and traditional SMSes because of VoIP and messaging applications like whatsapp.
Not sure for now if they will end up charging additionally for Wikipedia, as it in now way impacts their business.
Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Net Neutrality issues cropping up in india now, VOIP providers are first to be targeted..
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/24/bharti-airtel-rates-idINKBN0K20SU20...
If they can charge for VOIP or for other things, it means there is also nothing stopping providers in India from charging for wikipedia either. The reason they haven't done it yet, is just because they haven't thought of it yet.
Due to our current activities in India, we may be in a bit of a tricky situation trying to prevent afforementioned scenario.
We'll have to see how this progresses in practice.
sincerely, Kim
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:07:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote:
Washington post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-comp...
sincerely, Kim
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