How much would it cost to make things right and provide full unrestricted broadband to both counties? It would go a long way to restore their image. Instead of old Google's "do no evil" adopting "make it right" would restore a lot of public faith.
There once was a person who worked to place land mines as part of their job for the khmer rouge, they spent their life trying to remove them. It didn't fix the initial destruction but it helped to set right some of the damage.
It's also carrier dependent, depending on the FB CDN and the local telecom carrier, the traffic may not have been routing properly.
I can talk with Philippines from direct experience, but the two big players, Smart/Globe telecoms do try to grab "load" for the free experience even though you're on the right plan for Facebook Lite.
There has been much conversation about this too, on local media in the Philippines.
While I'm not a fan of FB/Meta, I can see how this is 100% the carriers telecom fault since FB runs similar campaigns throughout all of SouthEast Asia.
> How much would it cost to make things right and provide full unrestricted broadband to both counties?
That's such a weird way to see things.
Facebook is spending billions of dollars building broadband in developing countries, which isn't costing these countries anything except being able to use Facebook, and they should... apologize by spending more billions of dollars building broadband free of charge?
"Building infrastructure so you can have a dominant position in an emerging market" isn't remotely similar to "placing landmines".
There once was a person who worked to place land mines as part of their job for the khmer rouge, they spent their life trying to remove them. It didn't fix the initial destruction but it helped to set right some of the damage.