Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless

A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries of the European Union (EU) on net neutrality enforcement, has found that zero rating business practices by wireless carriers have increased the cost of wireless data compared to countries without zero rating. Based on the evidence, zero rating not only serves as a means to enhance ISPs’ power over the Internet, but it’s also how they charge consumers more money for wireless service. It found that the more fragmented the ISPs made the Internet with multiple zero rating practices for different services and applications, the larger the drop-off from Internet companies capable of engaging in those practices.

Source: www.eff.org