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Now that I gave it another thought. Isn't the only way to comply with net neutrality to throttle _all_ video instead of certain video? And isn't that exactly wh
by arianvanp 11y ago
Now that I gave it another thought. Isn't the only way to comply with net neutrality to throttle _all_ video instead of certain video? And isn't that exactly what T-mobile is trying to do here? It still sucks because it is misleading, but I sort of get where they're coming from.
- adenadel 11y agoI'm not a T-mobile customer, but I guess the "BingeOn" feature is supposed to stop the throttling for certain video providers.
- wmf 11y agoNo, I think it throttles all video. OK, maybe it doesn't throttle video providers who voluntarily throttle themselves, but the result is the same.
- adenadel 11y agoYeah, I misread. Binge On makes it so that the data from certain providers doesn't count against your data limit, but leads to throttling of all videos.
- tzs 11y agoIf you have Binge On turned on: all video is throttled, but video from a large number of sources does not count against your data cap. If you have Binge On turned off: video is not throttled, but it all counts against your data cap. You can switch between on and off as often as you want.
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- vhold 11y agoNo, because throttling a kind of traffic is also non-neutrality. Imagine cable companies throttling video, phone companies throttling VoIP, etc.