T-Mobile adds more services to Music Freedom

[Almeuit]

T-Mobile added more to their music freedom... Sadly Google music is still coming "later this year".

T-Mobile also said since the beginning of Music Freedom (June) customers have Streamed 7k TB of music.

T-Mobile adds six streaming services to Music Freedom, Google Play Music support coming later this year | Android Central

 

[SpookDroid]

whoohoo!!! I do stream a lot of Spotify now that I have T-Mo, I admit. Downside? I now have to charge my phone throughout the day hehe. Weird that Grooveshark is making these deals; I thought they weren't in good legal standings.

 

[dpham00]

7k tb might seem like a lot, but considering that tmobile has about 50 million subscribers, that comes out to 140mb per person. Granted not everyone is on the simple choice plan, but let's assume a third are. That is still only 420mb per person.

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[SpookDroid]

I've used around 1.5GB out of Spotify alone in a little over two weeks . I wish there was a way to tell the Android Data Monitor to ignore certain apps now haha I have to 'manually' substract Spotify traffic from everything else to see if how I'm doing.

 

[zorak950]

7k tb might seem like a lot, but considering that tmobile has about 50 million subscribers, that comes out to 140mb per person. Granted not everyone is on the simple choice plan, but let's assume a third are. That is still only 420mb per person.

I suspect it's like any other kind of data usage: some people are using the hell out of it, while others aren't using it much if at all.

 

[zorak950]

I'd be curious to know what it is about Google Play Music that's taking so long to integrate into their system.

 

[SpookDroid]

I'd be curious to know what it is about Google Play Music that's taking so long to integrate into their system.

Deals. The free streaming doesn't really come for free. A deal must be made between T-Mo and Google so that the service can be given out, free of charge, to T-Mo's users ($$$$$). The house never loses, remember?

 

[zorak950]

Deals. The free streaming doesn't really come for free. A deal must be made between T-Mo and Google so that the service can be given out, free of charge, to T-Mo's users ($$$$$). The house never loses, remember?

John Legere specifically said that the services weren't paying T-Mobile as part of the Music Freedom deal.

 

[Almeuit]

John Legere specifically said that the services weren't paying T-Mobile as part of the Music Freedom deal.

This. T-Mobile gains no money from these companies.

 

[SpookDroid]

I still think they have to reach some sort of deal. If not moneywise, then in some other way.

 

[Almeuit]

I still think they have to reach some sort of deal. If not moneywise, then in some other way.

The deal is them working together so T-Mobile knows what server is sending the traffic and they can "White list" that data so it won't count on their network. Other than that there is no real "deal" only a gain really for that company to have their customer's data not count on T-Mobile.

 

[raptir]

Interesting that they added Grooveshark considering all the legal issues they have had.

 

[Bob61]

I've used around 1.5GB out of Spotify alone in a little over two weeks . I wish there was a way to tell the Android Data Monitor to ignore certain apps now haha I have to 'manually' substract Spotify traffic from everything else to see if how I'm doing.

Or use the TMo app and see exactly what the carrier shows for data use.

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[oscari]

The T-Mobile app never works for me on my note 3 I usually just go on the website.

 

[Smply_Rcklss]

I use spotify & rhapsody, between those two I use about 10-15GB a month

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[tonyr6]

Also even though it is never mentioned Audio Addict (DI.fm, RadioTunes etc)is unlimited. I stream for hours and even at home turned off WiFi and listened for DI.fm for over a hour using its app and it did not use one byte of data. What uses data is if I open up Chrome and browse a website.

 

[Bigballer]

What I would like to know is if John Legere is planning on white-listing the entire Google Play music including personal uploaded music or all access? I really want to know!!

 

[Almeuit]

What I would like to know is if John Legere is planning on white-listing the entire Google Play music including personal uploaded music or all access? I really want to know!!

We will find out once they announce it . I'd hope they include it all.. But who knows..

 

[Csan508]

Well I think for this deal with these companies are more like hey you like music then come to us plus when you know
that these company big wigs is getting some type of kick back maybe it's a deal where they get a huge discounts on service and so they say here you go we give you this if you give us this

 

[Bigballer]

Well I think for this deal with these companies are more like hey you like music then come to us plus when you know
that these company big wigs is getting some type of kick back maybe it's a deal where they get a huge discounts on service and so they say here you go we give you this if you give us this

doubt it. Legere specifically stated that music freedom doesn't go against the principles of net neutrality because tmobile doesn't make any money from these companies.