AT&T Prepaid customers are getting free data to use, but only when watching content with certain apps. And currently, all those apps are owned by AT&T.
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Unlimited data for Pokémon GO fans on T-Mobile
If you’re a Pokémon GO fan, here’s a T-Mobile Tuesdays offer you’ll wish that the Un-carrier won’t screw up. On July 19, T-Mobile will use its customer appreciation program serve up new perks revolving around your travels related to the Pok
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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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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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Use Android Pay on Verizon and you’ll get 2GB of data for free
Free data! Who wouldn’t love it at a carrier that only sells limited data packages? Who wouldn’t love it at a carrier that tacks fees and hikes prices left and right? Who wouldn’t love it, period? Well, the jury’s still out on the whole
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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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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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Why are T-Mobile users seeing free-Facebook-data messages?
How many smartphone controversies can we have going at once? Most of our attention may be on the Apple vs. FBI encryption fight these days, but it wasn’t so long ago that the topic du jour was zero-rated data: the practice of some carriers that sends certain mobile data to our phones for free, while continuing to charge us for most data. T-Mobile’s no stranger to that controversy, and its Binge On ...
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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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India bans zero-rate schemes, including Facebook’s
If AT&T, T-Mobile and Comcast pulled zero-rate schemes in India like they did in the US, they would have to stop today. Similarly, Facebook is actually going to have to stop in its tracks from promoting its Free Basics program in the country.The Telecom ...
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Verizon brings free data to its own go90 streaming video service – is that still net-neutral?
Net neutrality may be the law of the land, but carriers aren’t about to sit idly by and treat all content as equal while there’s money to be made by doing the opposite. So while paid prioritization may be out the window so long as the FCC is getting its way, carriers have been quick to come at things from another direction, championing the rise of “zero-rated” data schemes that allow content providers to get their media to users without those viewers having to use their expensive mobile ...
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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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“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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T-Mobile Binge On adds 14 services, CEO calls out critics
After a lathering of criticism and data against T-Mobile’s zero-rated video data program, Binge On, CEO John Legere is now defending it by saying it is popular with customers and signed parties. This comes as the company is preparing to send ...
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