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It is not a contract and there exist a very similar arrangement that has existed for way longer: commercial radio

• Retric 5y ago
  Commercial radio doesn’t cause me to connect to third party services.
• lp0_on_fire 5y ago
  I don't incur additional costs for listing to a radio station that decides to play 30 second HD audio ads between segments. Unlike going to a blog to _read_ something and being forced to watch (and pay for the bandwidth) a 30 second HD video. I asked for a few hundred kb of data. They send me what could amount to several hundred megs of data. Many places in the world still are subject to metered data.
  • dantheman 5y ago
    What do you mean of course your endure costs - you're paying for the electricity running the radio, and the wear and tear on your device.
    • Retric 5y ago
      At an effectively constant rate independent of content.
• nonameiguess 5y ago
  Also a broadcast stream where users pay exactly the same amount for the airwaves (nothing) regardless of how much content gets sent out across it. This is not like an IP stream where you impose a quite literal cost on the receiver by sending more data than they expected.