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I've never experienced this. How would this even work for encrypted (HTTPS) streams? Even if this were technically feasible, it sounds like a massive infrastru

I've never experienced this. How would this even work for encrypted (HTTPS) streams? Even if this were technically feasible, it sounds like a massive infrastructure investment with little to no value. T-Mobile would need to have enough compute and network horsepower to DPI all outbound traffic, intercept every video stream, detect if it's over some resolution threshold, and re-encode it at a lower resolution or bit rate, all in real time.

sodality2 4y ago
Throttle video CDN ISP/ASN's
dghlsakjg 4y ago
It is in collaboration with certain video providers. YouTube over mobile for me is downscaled to 720p. In exchange, that doesn’t get counted in my high speed allotment of data. I can opt out, but then my data can get deprioritized over a certain threshold.
kalleboo 4y ago
"Downscale" is not quite the right term to use, they just throttle the video CDNs so the streaming platform chooses a lower bandwidth version