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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, 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.


That'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?


I'm confused, what does net neutrality mean if not being neutral to bits on the internet?


Text 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?


Text 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.


Your 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.


Text messages aren't on the internet.


They 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?


You may not care but net neutrality is about the internet.


Chromecast is not an ISP.




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