FCC Commish: Free Content Might Violate Agency’s ‘Internet Conduct Standard’

FCC Commissioner: Free Content Might Violate Agency’s ‘Internet Conduct Standard’ (PJ Media)

FCC Commissioner Ajit Varadaraj Pai said mobile content such as music that some service providers exempt from data limits could be in violation of the agency’s new Internet conduct standard.

Pai cited T-Mobile’s music freedom program as an example.

“If you are a T-Mobile wireless customer and you have a data cap you might think, ‘well, I have to be careful about how I consume data.’ Well, T-Mobile has a program called music freedom, which exempts certain programs like Spotify and Pandora from those data caps, so if you listen to a bunch of songs when you are walking around that content does not count against your data cap,” Pai said during an Internet regulation discussion hosted by the Federalist Society.