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Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by k-mcgrady on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:26AM (#12390989)
>> "I see providers offering free data for things like Spotify"

Any source for this? I've only ever seen providers offer free Spotify membership, not free data.

Edit: Thanks for the responses. I had no idea this was happening.

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by lorenzhs on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:45AM (#12391156)
T-mobile used to do this in Germany until earlier this month. In their FAQ [1], they state that the following in spotify count against customers' data plan: videos, album covers, sharing, and Spotify's "discovery" feature. They add a flat 100MB to the data plan to cover that. Note that the streaming of music is not included, so it doesn't count towards data usage.

They stopped offering this to new customers on August 2nd, 2016.

[1] https://www.telekom.de/hilfe/mobilfunk-mobiles-internet/mobi... (in German)

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by swinglock on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:43AM (#12391144)
Swedens I believe largest operators 3 and Telia has unlimited or a large amount of data that doesn't count towards the usual data limits when using specially selected services such as Spotify and Facebook.
Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by K0nserv on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @12:28PM (#12391546)
Telia also attached a condition that you had to promise to be nice on the internet and not practice "näthat"(net hate). Not joking either, they were then very unresponsive to criticism and questioning of their stance on net neutrality.
Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by petepete on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:37AM (#12391088)
Here's one not from the EU, but Switzerland

https://www.engadget.com/2013/01/21/spotify-signs-deal-with-...

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by pille on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:46AM (#12391177)
Deutsche Telekom was doing this and advertising it in Germany a few years ago but they've since stopped[1]. Spotify data didn't count against your (usually very slim) mobile data limit.

[1] http://www.golem.de/news/netzneutralitaet-telekom-fuehrt-dro...

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by H4wk_cz on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:59AM (#12391271)
Czech O2 offers free data for Spotify and 3 months of free premium membership.

http://www.o2.cz/osobni/spotify/ (in czech)

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by ORioN63 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:41AM (#12391134)
From Portugal:

http://www.wtf.pt/ Look for "APPS COM TRÁFEGO ILIMITADO" (Free data apps). You can see the apps below.

or

http://www.yorn.net/YORN/tarifario/yorn-x/index.htm#apps

I'm not even sure it's legal, but people don't really care/see it as a problem.

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by nothis on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @05:46PM (#12394196)
Happens in Austria with Drei.

https://www.drei.at/portal/de/privat/services-und-apps/zusae...

"Kein Datenverbrauch" == Zero Rating.

Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by speg on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @12:20PM (#12391475)
Re:Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe by chebastian on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @01:47PM (#12392224)
we have here in sweden providers(Telia) that does infact zero the data on any trafic from Facebook and Spotify.