Two T-Mobile One plans, one free year of DIRECTV NOW, but only if you jump from AT&T

AT&T has made it clear that its new DIRECTV NOW channel distribution program is targeted at cable-cutters and the mobile-obsessed. It’s available on as many screen sizes that make sense to view 16:9 content on. And you don’t have to be on any of AT&T’s services to get it.

T-Mobile is using this fact to its promotional advantage by promising AT&T customers who switch to the Un-carrier that if they take two lines and their number and put it under the T-Mobile ONE plan ($120 per month), they’ll get unlimited data, talk and text as well as a full year of DIRECTV NOW for free — in the form of 12 bill credits at the $35 monthly level.

Keep in mind that DIRECTV NOW is still offering its “Go Big” 100+ channel package at $25 off the usually monthly cost for a limited, though undefined time. T-Mobile’s promotion goes through February 16, so if you’re sitting on this deal — you AT&T Mobility customer — you might only be able to redeem the “Live a Little” 60+ channel package.

Magentaland’s customers on the deprecated Simple Choice plans can also stream DIRECTV NOW with Binge On and not have their data buckets affected. Keep in mind that no matter where you’re coming from to the Un-carrier, streaming video on the standard T-Mobile One plan and Binge On is limited in speed to support 480p resolution.

T-Mobile has not only been able to convince customers to come in with promotions like these, but stay in its subscriber base with campaigns like T-Mobile Tuesdays.

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T-Mobile One earns net neutrality doubts from EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which laid accusations against T-Mobile’s Binge On zero-rate program not being net neutral, is calling out said T-Mobile again for more bits of anti-net neutrality. This time, its targeting T-Mobile One, the carrier’s new one-for-all unlimited data ...

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T-Mobile Binge On provider count exceeds 100 with addition of ABC, Apple Music, and more

You can complain about the “Uncarrier’s” Tuesdays perks as much as you want, but it turns out the video announcement John Legere was teasing last week concerned Binge On, the free unlimited streaming service all T-Mobile customers are more than pleased with, despite initial skepticism and

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Sprint “Unlimited Freedom Plan” tries out two lines for $100

T-Mobile raised its monthly plan rates last year as it introduced its Binge On zero-rate program. While it offered more data per tier and more hotspot data at that, the unlimited data package ended up starting at $95 from its previous $80.Currently, two lines of unlimited data come to $140 per month. Sprint’s offering a $120 rate for the same thing. But it could dive even deeper if that carrier’s trial offers of the ...

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Study finds fatal flaw in T-Mobile’s Binge On scheme that can affect non-video content

T-Mobile’s zero-rated video streaming scheme, Binge On, has been a controversial one. It recently hasn’t been, but the debate over its conformity to net neutrality may get renewed with research from Northeastern University.Scholars reverse-engineered how the program worked and published their findings in a report called ...

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Even more video providers join T-Mobile Binge On in 6th expansion wave

America’s favorite on-the-go free streaming service (with a catch) is rapidly closing in on 100 partners, covering online video categories as diverse as anime, broadcast networks, gaming, kids & cartoons, religion, sports and user generated content.In its sixth expansion effort since a commercial debut just ...

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T-Mobile continues to Binge On with Spotify, TIDAL, Google Play Music

More video content providers are putting on the magenta-tinted glasses to zero out data charges for T-Mobile customers.The Un-carrier announced that it has notched more than 80 services in total for its Binge On zero-rate scheme. Today marks the program’s fifth expansion in its sixth month and adds what are technically 12 (and not 13) services, including:Google Play MusicGreat Big StoryNBCKisweLigonier ...

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T-Mobile Binge On and Music Freedom sign up new providers, pass 100 total

Attitudes towards T-Mobile’s zero-rating schemes for music and video have sure changed a lot since Music Freedom and Binge On got started, and providers who were once hesitant to take advantage of the carrier’s free-to-stream offer have really been coming around – the most notable being Google, which finally embraced Binge On for YouTube last month after initially criticizing the way the program was set up. Today T-Mobile’s announcing the latest batch of content providers to formally align ...

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Netflix throttles AT&T and Verizon traffic, it admits

After Netflix surrendered to cable providers and paid up to connect to their servers, the movie streaming service has admitted to cramping down on traffic from the nation’s two most popular carriers, AT&T and Verizon.Complaints have been filing into the two carriers, which have denied altering customers’ streams, since last week. That was when T-Mobile CEO John Legere continued defending the carrier’s Binge On zero-rated video streaming scheme which sets the maximum data rate for video to ...

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CFO: T-Mobile unlimited data will only be around “a limited time”

Unlimited has been getting a terrible rap in financial terms lately, at least in terms of being a constant peg of service. More recently, we’ve seen the gimmick-ization of all-you-can-use data plans in association with other promotions like what AT&T did with bundling DirecTV packages. It looks like T-Mobile may be doing the same ...

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Google and T-Mobile make nice over Binge On as YouTube signs up

Every year brings with it its own smartphone controversies, and we wrapped up 2015 with a pretty big one, as T-Mobile introduced its love-it-or-hate-it Binge On service for streaming video. On the surface, it sounded alright: T-Mobile would let users stream content from a number of popular providers without that data counting against their plan allotment. All those users had to put up with for that privilege was slightly downgraded video quality. But then we started looking closer, and there were all these ...

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5G tests for T-Mobile don’t matter as much as making a splash

They will happen starting this year, just don’t expect to hear much from T-Mobile about it. CTO Neville Ray said “we’ll be right there with [the competition] or ahead” when the very earliest consumer 5G access for any US carrier is expected for 2020.Instead of talking deep about technology that AT&T and Verizon both pledged to start testing this year, believes that Verizon is “trying to change the ...

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Stanford professor argues T-Mobile’s Binge On hurts net neutrality

The fallout from the defense of T-Mobile’s Binge On program streams on. In its short existence as an Un-carrier feature, the zero-rated video streaming service has gotten into hot water from the EFF while piquing the interest of the FCC. All the while, the company’s CEO John Legere

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T-Mobile simplifies Binge On controls, signs up new video providers

By now, the controversy surrounding T-Mobile’s Binge On platform is out there, and if you’re a subscriber, you’re either aware of what it’s doing and have taken steps to ensure your continued access to high-quality streaming video, have enthusiastically welcomed the bandwidth savings at the expense of a little quality, or have concluded that you don’t really care about things one way or another. T-Mobile, for its part, is committed to sticking with the system, and today ...

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“Productive” meetings between FCC, T-Mobile, AT&T and Comcast on zero-rate data

Those worrying about cascading impacts from the still-new zero-rated data programs have been looking toward what the FCC might assess them as. Are they net neutral policies or not? T-Mobile has had a colorful month in defending its own Binge On scheme from criticism while AT&T and Comcast have their own programs as well.The Commission asked representatives from the three companies to meet with them

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