&gt; <i>T-Mobile is undermining the argument by stating (whether true or not remains to be seen) that a qualifying website need only sign up to participate.</i><p>Strongly disagree. T-Mobile already zero-rates major audio streaming services, but it doesn&#x27;t have the indie Shoutcast station I&#x27;ve been listening to for over a decade. (It doesn&#x27;t have any Shoutcast stations.) Will the video streaming exemption cover my home Plex server? Very doubtful. Why is it OK for an ISP to favor entrenched commercial services over homegrown indie ones? That&#x27;s absolutely counter to the spirit of net neutrality.<p>Even if T-Mobile could magically cover all audio and video services instantly, why are they allowed to favor one <i>type</i> of service over another? Why am I charged differently for bytes going to Netflix than for bytes going to Skype?<p>&gt; <i>I&#x27;m struggling to see how giving end consumers more of what they want for the same price (zero-rating with an option to opt-out) is counter to the initial spirit of the net neutrality regulation.</i><p>Couldn&#x27;t you make exactly the same argument about fast lanes? Why is it bad to give consumers some of their data faster?<p>Let&#x27;s look at it another way: Making connections to providers on this list effectively cheaper (but not touching the data cap) is equivalent to making providers NOT on the list cost more.<p>How about they just deliver my bytes equitably without regard to any business relationships they have with any providers? If T-Mobile thinks my data cap is too low, they should raise it and let me decide what services to use.