Most notably, Canadian consumers and creators will benefit in the long-term from the net neutrality policies. The CRTC noted that the evidence showed that zero rating offers were typically limited to high-end plans, thereby doing little to increase affordability of wireless services. Moreover, the European experience indicates providers that do not zero rate offer better prices and larger data allowances.
Zero rating by the carrier is the only violation. If a user wants to make zero rating for users within their purchase, not a problem. 0800 numbers were fine under Title II because there was not network layer discrimination. Market predictions (”zero rating will kill innovation”) are not an interest of the transport layer, only when the layer operator discriminates in this way is it an issue.
