Except there’s no revenue share here. According to T-Mobile, the streaming partners aren’t paying anything to T-Mo and T-Mo isn’t paying them. It’s kind of like zero-rating in that the customers don’t pay bandwidth charges, but it’s different in that the service provider isn’t being asked to subsidize the network provider (usual implementation of zero-rating). Owen
On Nov 23, 2015, at 10:42 , Christian Kuhtz <chkuhtz@microsoft.com> wrote:
I don't know if this is NN or not, but the concept is ancient. Even back in the dark ages of mobile, zero rating and associated rev share were very common.
Whether this is relevant to NN or not is for lawyers.
Christian
On Nov 20, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
According to:
Chairman Wheeler thinks that T-mob's new "customers can get uncapped media stream data, but only from the people we like" service called Binge On is pro-competition.
My take on this is that the service is *precisely* what Net Neutrality was supposed to prevent -- carriers offering paid fast-lanes to content providers -- and that this is anti-competitive to the sort of "upstart YouTube" entities that NN was supposed to protect...
and that *that* is the competition that NN was supposed to protect.
And I just said the same thing two different ways.
Cause does anyone here think that T-mob is giving those *carriers* pride of place *for free*?
Corporations don't - in my experience - give away lots of money out of the goodness of their hearts.
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