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So how do I sign up to get my home media server added to be zero-rated?

• toast0 3y ago
  T-mobile says: "If you are a streaming service provider click here[1], send us an email and we'll get back to you to begin the process. T-Mobile will review all submissions to ensure identification of video stream and technical requirements, including optimization for mobile viewing." They do have a requirement that "Only lawful and licensed video content is eligible for the offering" And that you be capable of making the stream identifiable as video content and do adaptive bitrate streaming (target of 1.5 Mbps) The only public documentation for service providers I found was in the consumer faq [2] under "I’m a streaming service provider – how do I learn more?" It's quite probable that they won't engage with a home media server, because you're operating under fair use rather than an explicit license, or because there's too many individual home media servers and some home media servers serve media that's unlicensed and also not within the scope of fair user. But it doesn't hurt to ask and see what you get back. Alternately, a paper from 2016 [3], suggests you could make your content available in a form that appears to be one of the supported services, and likely get mischaracterized as that service and have your data zero-rated as a result. Not sure if anyone is still running video over http in 2016, but it's worth a try. It should be apparent if it works, as when it does, T-Mobile will limit streaming bandwidth to 1.5 Mbps. [1] bingeon@t-mobile.com [2] https://www.t-mobile.com/tv-streaming/binge-on https://www.t-mobile.com/tv-streaming/binge-on [3] http://david.choffnes.com/pubs/bingeon_sigcomm16.pdf http://david.choffnes.com/pubs/bingeon_sigcomm16.pdf