Excluding specific application traffic from customer consumption data

A system comprising;

• a communication link;
• and
• communication hardware operable to provide a communication device operated by a user access to multiple content delivery sources over the communication link, the communication hardware operable to:
• receive first data packets from a first source of the multiple content delivery sources, the first data packets destined for delivery to the communication device operated by the user, the first data packets assigned delivery information to facilitate conveyance of the first data packets over the communication link to the communication device;
• examine the delivery information assigned to the first data packets to control delivery of the first data packets, the delivery information indicating that the first data packets are received from the first source;
• and
• in response to detecting that the first data packets are received from the first source and that communications from the first source are to be excluded from a data delivery count representing a amount of data conveyed to the communication device over the communication link on behalf of the user, communicate the first data packets over a data flow that is not counted in the data delivery count assigned to the user.

Non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when carried out by computer processor hardware, cause the computer processor hardware to:

• receive first data packets over a communication link from a first source, the first data packets destined for delivery to a communication device operated by a user in a network environment, the first data packets assigned delivery information to facilitate conveyance of the first data packets over the communication link to the communication device;
• examine the delivery information assigned to the first data packets to control delivery of the first data packets, the delivery information indicating that the first data packets are received from the first source;
• and
• in response to detecting that the first data packets are received from the first source and that communications from the first source are to be excluded from a data delivery count representing a amount of data conveyed to the communication device over the communication link on behalf of the user, communicate the first data packets over a data flow that is not counted in the data delivery count assigned to the user.