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>> "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.

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)

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.

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.

Here's one not from the EU, but Switzerland

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

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...

Czech O2 offers free data for Spotify and 3 months of free premium membership.

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

From Portugal:

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

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.

Happens in Austria with Drei.

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

"Kein Datenverbrauch" == Zero Rating.

Happening in Canada too:

http://www.videotron.com/unlimitedmusic

we have here in sweden providers(Telia) that does infact zero the data on any trafic from Facebook and Spotify.

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