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by yosamino 3397 days ago
Sure, but the barrier for the ISP to allowing the same thing for a proprietary music streaming service has been lowered.

This is, apart from the utility that it brings, advertisement for the operator:

> Wikimedia recognizes the user is on that operator's network and serves a banner on the top of the page indicating free data courtesy of their mobile operator, which reinforces a positive brand experience for the operator. [0]

It's not inconceivable that the ISP would do similar deals with $music_streaming_service. Maybe for some payment.

[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero