Over in the US, you have carriers such as T-Mobile who offer up music and movie streaming plans for its customers that do not eat into their regular data. Basically as long as you are streaming from one of their partners, it will not count towards your data allowance which could save users a lot of data in the process.

However there is the question of net neutrality, which is where all bandwidth needs to be treated equally, which is why over in Canada, the country’s Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled against the Unlimited Music Service of Videotron, which for those unfamiliar is the telco unit of Canadian carrier Quebecor.

In a statement put out by Jean-Pierre Blais, the Canadian commission’s chairman, “Rather than offering its subscribers selected content at different data usage prices, Internet service providers should be offering more data at lower prices. That way, subscribers can choose for themselves what content they want to consume.”

Basically it sounds like the commission wants customers to be able to choose what they want to use, as opposed to being told or herded towards other services simply because it does not count towards their data cap. The ruling gave Videotron 90 days to bring its plan into compliance, although the company has responded by saying that they are disappointed by the decision, but they do plan on maintaining the unlimited music service until further notice.

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