A draft of those guidelines leaked online ahead of BEREC's announcement on Monday, and while the rules show promise, they leave much to be desired in the minds of net neutrality advocates. Specifically, advocates are worried about loopholes that allow practices like “zero rating,” in which ISPs don't count the use of certain apps and services against customers' data caps, causing those services to be heavily favored over their competitors. While India successfully pushed backed against this trend by rejecting Facebook's controversial “Free Basics” program for internet access, US net neutrality rules largely failed to fight ISPs on zero-rating, as evidenced by an increasing number of free streaming programs like T-Mobile's “Binge On.”

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