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0 pointsunreal3714y ago0 comments

I'm assuming Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not paying Bell Mobility anything for this. Essentially, Bell is offering it to customers as a carrot to sign up with them. "We don't charge you for social networking, which we know you will use every day!" sounds catchy to a lot of people.

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gioele14y ago

> I'm assuming Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not paying Bell Mobility

It is quite likely that they are, see the nice error message you get from http://0.facebook.com . I suppose the deal requires Facebook to pay ISPs; the ISPs are free to offer free access to any site whenever they want and I doubt they are really after a text-only interface.

But this is not the point. The main problem is that all the Facebook competitors will have to pay if they do not want to be relegated in the I-have-to-pay-for-it separate internet.

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gioele14y ago

> I'm assuming Facebook, Twitter and Myspace are not paying Bell Mobility

But this is not the point. The main problem is that all the Facebook competitors will have to pay if they do not want to be relegated in the I-have-to-pay-for-it separate internet.

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