> On Nov 23, 2015, at 14:16 , Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: >> Except there’s no revenue share here. According to T-Mobile, the streaming >> partners >> aren’t paying anything to T-Mo and T-Mo isn’t paying them. It’s kind of like >> zero-rating >> in that the customers don’t pay bandwidth charges, but it’s different in >> that the service >> provider isn’t being asked to subsidize the network provider (usual >> implementation of >> zero-rating). > > equal exchange of value doesn't have to be dollars/pesos/euros > changing hands right? > -chris
Sure, but I really don’t think there’s 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
