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w1z4rd

w1z4rd

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(okay not commie, thats clickbait. mixed market economy with heavy socialist undertones)

So I have been living in Vietnam for the last month and I purchased 20GB of data on an esim when I got here. I used that data every day, browsing the usual websites and I noticed my data was hardly moving. I thought they perhaps gave me a bugged esim with some type of unlimited data plan but nope. Thats how it works here.

Certain services such as Youtube/Google, Tiktok, Meta services and a whole lot of other big popular websites are zero rated for data. Meaning, that use of these services is not allowed to count towards you cap. So they are all basically free! I couldnt believe it.

There are other things Vietnam government got the providers to do differently. For instance, a Youtube add has to have the skip function available after 3 seconds. And Google complies!

Why dont we have these epic things from our government? Dont tell me is a cost issue because if Vietnam providers can do it, so can we.

Its amazing what your government can get done if its working for the people and not special interest lobby groups buying out ICASA.
 
@w1z4rd - what is the cash situation there, everything digital yet ?
CBDC apparently implemented fully after banks said cash is phased out and no tlonger being issued
 
w1z4rd said:
I would prefer that people had free access to services like Youtube. (though they can remove shorts from that). The university of youtube is teaching more people around the world than any other service.
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They should partition You tube and zero rate the educational parts. Shorts are garbage and clunky
 
Kinda reminds me of the BIS days, i recall it only not working with YouTube, man BIS was such a steal
 
Anthro said:
@w1z4rd - what is the cash situation there, everything digital yet ?
CBDC apparently implemented fully after banks said cash is phased out and no tlonger being issued
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Yeah, lots is digital, but tons of cash as well. I do have the Grab app connected so I can order almost anything i want (so far as food deliveries and "uber" rides go), but I dont have a local account so I pay with everything else in cash. All the vendors I have come across still accept cash, but they often do have those QR codes as well.

I think because the tourist economy here is so huge (there so so many tourists), cash is still king here.
 
w1z4rd said:
(okay not commie, thats clickbait. mixed market economy with heavy socialist undertones)

So I have been living in Vietnam for the last month and I purchased 20GB of data on an esim when I got here. I used that data every day, browsing the usual websites and I noticed my data was hardly moving. I thought they perhaps gave me a bugged esim with some type of unlimited data plan but nope. Thats how it works here.

Certain services such as Youtube/Google, Tiktok, Meta services and a whole lot of other big popular websites are zero rated for data. Meaning, that use of these services is not allowed to count towards you cap. So they are all basically free! I couldnt believe it.

There are other things Vietnam government got the providers to do differently. For instance, a Youtube add has to have the skip function available after 3 seconds. And Google complies!

Why dont we have these epic things from our government? Dont tell me is a cost issue because if Vietnam providers can do it, so can we.

Its amazing what your government can get done if its working for the people and not special interest lobby groups buying out ICASA.
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Meh, this is nogals cool.
 
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