This is because a Litecoin Satoshi is about 1/10th of a BCH Satoshi i USD value.
Both chains have a min. fee of 1 sat/byte.
There has been a proposal for BCH to allow for a certain
The ABC team have forked off BCH, but Mark Lundeberg who made the proposal works for BCHN now, so there is a good chance, if people ask BCHN nicely :-)
If they do resurrect this, it should specify _absolutely_ that only OP_RETURN transactions are acceptable for this feature. Or, perhaps, only the OP_RETURN component is zero-fee.
ABC still runs a BCH node implementation. The node implementation for the IFP chain has indeed forked off, but they haven’t left the BCH space completely.
Free transactions were awesome... I doubt we’ll be getting these on BCH with the current leadership... Sad, because it would have been a great + for BCH!