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How do they know the customer is listening to music? Deep packet inspection?
by Touche 12y ago
How do they know the customer is listening to music? Deep packet inspection?
- glifchits 12y agoProbably just by checking if the origin of certain requests is a server belonging to one of their partner sites?
- Touche 12y agoPartner sites serve more than just music bits.
- glifchits 12y agoYeah, but it doesn't make sense that T-Mobile would charge you for the album art or the banner ad and not the music file.
- Touche 12y agoWhat about viewing their website, why should that be free?
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoSeems like they think it makes sense to do that. From the fine print at the bottom of the page: > Licensed music streaming from included services does not count toward Simple Choice high speed data allotment on T-Mobile’s network; song downloads, video content, and non-audio content excluded.
- sahaskatta 12y agoThey state that the following music services will not count against your data plan: "Pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, Rhapsody, Spotify, Slacker, and Milk Music."
- Touche 12y agoMy question is how do they know a customer is using the services.
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoGood question. I assumed it was only when using the streaming apps (which I already assumed have some sort of unique signature) but I see they don't explicitly say that it is app only. They mostly just call them streaming services. Only once do they refer to apps when they say: App after app, we’re setting streaming music free.
- ahomescu1 12y agoOr maybe just IP address/port pair. It shouldn't be hard to figure out which pair each app uses.