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AT&T exempts HBO Max from data caps but still limits your Netflix use
- Zenbit_UX 6y agoAnd so it begins...
- mycall 6y agoAs someone who uses AT&T mobile for my only internet, this is better than nothing.
- pstuart 6y agoBut they promised they wouldn't do this! /s
- _-david-_ 6y agoAt the bottom of the article it seems to indicate they have upheld their promise > In July 2015, when AT&T bought DirecTV, the Wheeler FCC imposed a merger condition that barred AT&T from exempting its own online video services from home-Internet data caps. But the condition had a four-year time limit and expired in 2019, and the condition never applied to AT&T's mobile network.
- salmon30salmon 6y agoThis isn't the beginning, T-Mobile was the first to really promote their zero-rating: https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/19/10794288/netflix-t-mobile-binge-on-net-neutrality-zero-rating https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/19/10794288/netflix-t-mobile... Let's not all pretend that this is something new simply because we don't like the side that is now doing it.
- aaomidi 6y agoTmobiles system was a lot more open but still fucked.
- likeclockwork 6y ago"The side"? What are the sides here?
- ulfw 6y agoIt‘s different as T-Mobile doesn‘t OWN the content provider.
- _-david-_ 6y agoUnless I am missing something it seems like AT&T would be limiting both HBO and Netflix if net neutrality had passed? Also, as far as I know net neutrality did not remove all data limits on unlimited plans right?
- mr_cyborg 6y agoCould you be more specific in what you mean by “net neutrality”? It’s a principle that could be put into practice a number of different ways.
- noxer 6y agoNet neutrality means all network packages are treated equally while they are delivered. Its not about how that is implemented.
- mr_cyborg 6y ago> Net neutrality means all network packages are treated equally while they are delivered. I was wondering what they meant by "...if net neutrality had passed", which seemed to indicate a particular legal implementation of the principle you described above.
- battery_cowboy 6y agoNet neutrality is supposed to mean that all data are equal.
- whalesalad 6y agoAT&T has a partnership with HBO. I get HBO for “free” as part of my phone bill. So by nature of that relationship they need to have a fat trunk to HBO’s content.
- gdubs 6y agoNot so much a partnership as AT&T bought Warner Media which includes HBO.
- olliej 6y agoif only there were some rule that require that network providers were required to treat traffic neutrally.
- magwa101 6y agoWhat are the chances??