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T-Mobile customers will be much more likely to stay with the established brand (e.g. Spotify) because they get free data for it, whereas an indie-Spotify, becau
by jmgrosen 12y ago
T-Mobile customers will be much more likely to stay with the established brand (e.g. Spotify) because they get free data for it, whereas an indie-Spotify, because it is smaller and doesn't have the awareness, doesn't have a deal with T-Mobile, and thus customers will be less inclined to choose such an alternative.
- jbigelow76 12y agoThat's a marketing problem for indie-Spotify, not a net neutrality problem. When Google's Chromecast offered 3 free months of Netflix with a purchase was that an attack on net neutrality issue too since it didn't drive equal sign up opportunities to Hulu?
- Touche 12y agoI'm confused, what does net neutrality mean if not being neutral to bits on the internet?
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoText messages are bits. They used to cost per text and now they don't. Nobody got up in arms about that. Why is this different?
- Touche 12y agoText messages aren't on the internet.
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoThey get to my phone the same way the music does... from a cell tower. I don't really care how the carrier got them to the tower. Bits are bits, right?
- Touche 12y agoYou may not care but net neutrality is about the internet.
- dingaling 12y agoText messages don't / didn't cost different rates depending upon what you discussed in them. 'Honey, we need milk from the store': 10 cents 'Bon Jovi are playing Glastonbury this year!': free People would have been up in arms about that.
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoYour analogy would only work if T-Mobile was only offering free streaming of Bon Jovi music. But it seems like that is not the case.
- quink 12y agoChromecast is not an ISP.