If you check up on T-Mobile on Google News this morning, the top item will almost surely be that there are rumors that T-Mobile may soon be offering the iPhone to its subscribers.  But there is another story about T-Mobile that bears attention: an interview in which its CEO says that he hopes to start charging more for different kinds of content, at least in some countries.  Such a policy would, sadly, vindicate fears that MAP and its colleagues have long expressed.  Perhaps the blowback from this interview will prompt some reconsideration.

T-Mobile to Abandon Net Neutrality for Mobile Video
T-Mobile is planing to ask companies like Apple and Google to pay for their mobile offerings, according to an interview that René Obermann, CEO of T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom, gave the German Manager Magazin. Obermann said the company could charge more for offering better quality of service or high transfer rates for mobile video or music, which should be “priced differently.”
He added that well-produced and successful online platforms should not be able to use the mobile Internet for free. Deutsche Telekom is already in discussions with Google about this very subject, according to Obermann. The Telekom CEO didn’t say whether T-Mobile would want to use this approach universally or restrict it to countries with less stringent net neutrality protections. The company operates mobile networks in more than 10 European countries, as well as in the U.S.

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