This one was about a collection of RN ratings planning to steal some money.
The House passed a transportation budget before the auto industry could mount a lobbying challenge to the rollover ratings plans, which were announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on May 25.
If it was yet another zero-rating plan, then, as I've pointed out, the truly innovative offering would be removing data caps.
The movement was boosted by the popular standup comedy group All India Bakchod (AIB), who made John Oliver-style 13-minute YouTube videos explaining the adverse effects of differential pricing and zero-rating plans on the Indian internet.
On 21 January, the regulator held a final open meeting (listen to the audio here) in New Delhi where it invited people to submit their views on zero-rating plans and differential pricing ahead of the ruling.
By the time 24 April arrived, 1.1 million Indians (including this writer) had emailed the TRAI, urging it not to license what it called "over-the-top", internet-based services, nor to give telecom operators the legal sanction to start "zero-rating" plans – or charging different prices for different services.
While "zero-rating" plans aren't new, Airtel Zero has garnered a significant amount of backlash and become a focal point for net neutrality supporters in India.
They build the network infrastructure like towers and are trying zero-rating plans for free access to limited parts of the web.
The FCC may be on the verge of being rebuilt under a very different administration, but reports put together under the current one are still being issued — and just such a one released today offers a critical view of some current "zero-rating" plans from AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.
Executives at the ratings agency plan to meet with officials at each airline and will act on debt ratings quickly.
The appeal was issued nearly two weeks after UPN announced that as a result of dismal ratings, it plans to pull the plug on the series on May 13.
