We want all of your favorite video streaming services to be included as a part of Binge On. If your go-to video streaming service isn't part of the program yet, tweet us your favorite service @TMobile, along with the hashtag #BingeOn. If they meet our requirements, we'll investigate the feasibility of adding them. No one pays to join and no money is exchanged.
If you are a streaming service provider click here, send us an email and we'll get back to you to begin the process. See FAQs below for more information about technical criteria.
T-Mobile will review all submissions to ensure identification of video stream and technical requirements, including optimization for mobile viewing.
T-Mobile is committed to maximizing YOUR choice and providing access to as many great providers as possible.
Binge On optimizes video quality for smartphone screens. As a result, it provides a great DVD-quality experience (typically 480p or better) for all detectable video while using a fraction of the data, unless a provider chooses to opt-out of the program. To date, no providers have opted out of Binge On. If you have Binge On and want to disable it, we will no longer optimize video for viewing on a mobile device. Your videos may stream at a higher resolution (e.g., HD); however, you will no longer have the ability to stream for free from participating streaming services or have video optimized for your smartphone screen, resulting in faster usage of your high-speed data. You can always change your mind and enable Binge On any time to start enjoying the benefits again.
Binge On is automatically enabled so your data will stretch up to three times further when you are streaming video, unless a provider chooses to opt out. If you disable Binge On, video streaming will no longer be optimized and video resolution will default to the highest available based on the streaming service (e.g., HD). This will also result in your 4G LTE data being consumed faster, and all video streaming will count toward your high-speed data. Of course, you are free to disable Binge On at any time, and then enable it again whenever you like.
Absolutely nothing. Every Simple Choice customer can watch up to three times more video with their data plan with Binge On enabled. If you have 3GB of data or more, stream from your favorite steaming services like YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Sling, ESPN, SHOWTIME, Starz, and more for free, without using your 4G LTE data. The more data you have, the more benefits you get.
Yes, with T-Mobile, families never share data. Each family member gets their own ability to stream unlimited. Families can experience Binge On benefits automatically and control settings for each line independently.
It looks great. Binge On optimizes video quality for smartphone screens. It provides a great DVD-quality experience (typically 480p or better), which can also minimize buffering and maximize quality while using a fraction of the data. But it is your choice. If you want a higher resolution data experience, you can always choose to turn off Binge On; however, you will no longer have the ability to stream for free from participating streaming services, or have video optimized for your smartphone screen, resulting in higher usage of your high-speed data.
For best performance, leave any video streaming application set to its default resolution setting, because most video applications will automatically adapt to Binge On. Attempting to set your video streaming service to a specific resolution while Binge On is enabled may degrade performance and lead to buffering. If you want to view video at a specified resolution, you can disable Binge On and turn it back on when you like.
Yes, Binge On is a benefit included in all T-Mobile rate plans with limited high-speed data buckets, including T-Mobilefor Business plans. If you have 3GB data plan or higher you will be able to stream video through YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Sling, ESPN and more without it counting against your high-speed data. Businesses can choose to enable or disable Binge On for each line independently or the entire account and every line on the account will be eligible for the Binge On benefits.
Yes. If you are streaming video from one of our Binge On providers while tethering from a smartphone, tablet, or mobile Internet device to a laptop, desktop, tablet, or handset you'll enjoy all the great benefits of Binge On.
To be listed as participating in the offer, all video from the provider must continuously meet these requirements; if the content provider does not continue to meet then-current requirements, T-Mobile may remove video from inclusion in our zero-rating program.
These criteria are current as of March 16, 2016. The Binge On offering may be discontinued at any time, and this page will be updated to reflect any changes to the Binge On program or the technical requirements.
If you are a streaming service provider click here, send us an email and we'll get back to you to begin the process. T-Mobile will review all submissions to ensure identification of video stream and technical requirements, including optimization for mobile viewing.
Content Provider Technical Requirements for Binge On
Since its launch in November of 2015 customers have enjoyed T-Mobile's Binge On video offering, under which customers on qualifying rate plans who choose to receive standard DVD quality video (typically 480p or better) receive zero-rated video (with associated audio) streams from qualifying content providers. Content providers have 4 choices under the program:
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"There are no heroes. No villains. Just people with different agendas." This quote from Netflix show Daredevil sums up today's supposed "battle" over the neutrality of the Internet, as fought by giant Internet firms like Netflix and network operators like Comcast.
Take a letter sent by Netflix to shareholders two days before Donald Trump's inauguration as US president. The letter seeks to reassure investors that any reversal of US net neutrality laws that prevent ISPs from blocking or throttling traffic or charging third parties for priority would not affect the business's outlook.
"Weakening of US net neutrality laws, should that occur, is unlikely to materially affect our domestic margins or service quality because we are now popular enough with consumers to keep our relationships with ISPs stable," Netflix states.
Netflix's letter implies continued backing for net neutrality rules: "Strong net neutrality is important to support innovation and smaller firms. No one wants ISPs to decide what new and potentially disruptive services can operate over their networks, or to favor one service over another."
Netflix will more likely devote its energies to getting similarly favorable treatment from mobile operators, with CEO Reed Hastings setting out his stall during his keynote at next month's Mobile World Congress (MWC). Here's what we think he's after:
Clearly, some of these topics will have a greater bearing on net neutrality than others, some not at all. But it's hard to deny that Netflix's growing coziness with network operators will give it a competitive advantage over smaller players that don't have the brands, scale, and infrastructure to strike such partnerships.
Google made an aggressive push into the entertainment business on Tuesday, unveiling a new online music locker and a movie-rental service. Google's Music Beta lets users upload 20,000 songs in an online account and stream them to a computer or mobile device. The mobile Android Market will start renting thousands of recent Hollywood movies for $1.99, for wireless viewing on Android smartphones and tablets. How do these "promising" new services stack up to rival offerings from Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and other competitors?
Good... but not good enough: Rolling out music and movie streaming is a big step forward for Google, especially in its fight with Apple for dominance in the phone and tablet realm, says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. But it "won't likely close the considerable lead that Apple" has. The slick new movie-rental streaming will give Apple and Netflix real competition, but Music Beta suffers from lack of a music store and the tedious need for users to upload gigabytes of songs.
The coordinator of the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Professor Gerhard Fettweis, is heading a common initiative by German research institutes and industrial companies presented at the German computer fair CeBIT in Hannover on March 10th, 2014. Globally, multi-billion amounts are invested in this area of research - e.g. by the notion of 5th Generation of Mobile Communications.
To drive this initiative forward and to develop the superfast mobile internet standard 5G, a collaboration between Technische Universitt Dresden, King's College London, and the University of Surrey is planned.
The cross-sectional significance of future digital infrastructure far-reaching beyond mobile communications and the competition on technological leadership are internationally highly prioritized. Innovations in areas such as engineering, automobile, transport and logistics, health service, and public administration can only be developed sustainably in Germany and Europe if they are advanced, tested and used at the location.
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