Internet Insider: Pokemon Go and zero rating

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INTERNET INSIDER
July 22, 2016

There’s no doubt; this week has been all Pokemon Go, all the time. And as hooked as you may be, the popular augmented reality game is perhaps the best case yet as to why people should care about zero rating. In the U.S., the phone carrier T-Mobile is offering to exempt Pokemon Go from its data caps for a year. But what about all the other apps? This measure penalizes all other games and provides unnecessary and unfair advantages to Pokemon Go, advantages it doesn’t need given its popularity. You can learn more here.

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