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Thank you! I'm a T-Mobile customer and that's exactly what I was thinking when I read about this plan. For what it's worth, as a customer I know I can opt out o
by apenwarr 11y ago
Thank you! I'm a T-Mobile customer and that's exactly what I was thinking when I read about this plan. For what it's worth, as a customer I know I can opt out of this plan and I didn't, because unlimited lower resolution video simply is worth more to me than limited high resolution video.
Personally my only concern is that zero rating only applies to video providers that sign up with them. If they want to be good corporate citizens, I think they should zero rate all the streams they detect as video, so there's a 1:1 mapping between zero rated and throttled.
I live in New York, where many many people's only connection to the Internet is on their phone. They have no home wifi. With this plan, t-mobile just became way more cost effective for those people if they want to watch tons of video.
Is it the first step down a slippery slope? I don't know. But this first step is awfully appealing from my point of view as a cheapskate consumer.
(My views here do not in any way represent the opinions of my employer.)