[186035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Nov 23 17:28:36 2015
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaaR8_R+DX-wVpEvGe4pQhk7zmJYv04M7mAafF_U_PKDdw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:26:28 -0800
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Nov 23, 2015, at 14:16 , Christopher Morrow =
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>> Except there=E2=80=99s no revenue share here. According to T-Mobile, =
the streaming partners
>> aren=E2=80=99t paying anything to T-Mo and T-Mo isn=E2=80=99t paying =
them. It=E2=80=99s kind of like zero-rating
>> in that the customers don=E2=80=99t pay bandwidth charges, but it=E2=80=
=99s different in that the service
>> provider isn=E2=80=99t being asked to subsidize the network provider =
(usual implementation of
>> zero-rating).
>=20
> equal exchange of value doesn't have to be dollars/pesos/euros
> changing hands right?
> -chris
Sure, but I really don=E2=80=99t think there=E2=80=99s an exchange per =
se in this case, given that T-Mo
is (at least apparently) willing to accommodate any streaming provider =
that wants to
participate so long as they are willing to conform to a fairly basic set =
of technical criteria.
Owen
