<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://87/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">> <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Is that it?</span><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The problem is not limited access, it is FB.</span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;">CW</span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font><div><div>On 06 Oct 2015, at 17:34, "Mueller, Milton L" <<a href="mailto:milton.mueller@pubpolicy.gatech.edu">milton.mueller@pubpolicy.gatech.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">At the TPRC conference there was an interesting paper on Zero-rating.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2587542" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2587542</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Unfortunately it’s not downloadable yet. I attended this session however and while the methodology of this paper was not strong, it did raise some interesting questions about the attack on zero-rating. One of the most eye-opening findings was that the services or apps that were zero rated did not actually seem to benefit that much in terms of market share or demand. I know that minor incidences of zero-rating will not affect the fear of many that it could be abused by big players, but if it has truly strong and visible anti-competitive effects, then one should attack such practices on an adhoc basis using competition policy, not oppose all zero-rating in all situations by all market participants. It seems that zero-rating could be used by market entrants to gain a foothold in the market and increase competition in certain instances.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Regarding Facebook and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://Internet.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Internet.org</a>, let me see if I understand the argument: No access at all is preferable to limited access, and we shouldn’t allow anyone to make that choice for themselves. Is that it? ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; "><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:governance-<a href="mailto:request@lists.igcaucus.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Suresh Ramasubramanian<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, October 5, 2015 10:46 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[governance] A lot of people here will likely disagree<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">But it's interesting to see an articulate voice advocate "the other side" and call out some of the commentary on this issue as ill informed and politically aimed rhetoric <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Engaging in debate would be useful so the author of this piece can get a more informed : balanced and less politically driven perspective of neutrality<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a href="http://m.hindustantimes.com/columns/net-neutrality-war-is-not-just-facebook-versus-internet-mullahs/story-s9eZpZnomaaiz4De8fYfaK.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://m.hindustantimes.com/columns/net-neutrality-war-is-not-just-facebook-versus-internet-mullahs/story-s9eZpZnomaaiz4De8fYfaK.html</a><br><br>--srs<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>