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In the US (I believe) Net Neutrality basically died. Even before that, it was allowed to zero-rate categories of apps (like messaging). That might be coming bac
by mdasen 3y ago
In the US (I believe) Net Neutrality basically died. Even before that, it was allowed to zero-rate categories of apps (like messaging). That might be coming back now that the FCC has 5 commissioners again and can reinstate Net Neutrality.
However, even with reasonably strict neutrality, this is still possible. Many mobile carriers zero-rated streaming services here, but unlike your operators they'd do it for any streaming service. It was pretty easy for any streaming provider to sign up. They'd basically give the operator the IP ranges they'd be streaming from and the operator would just zero-rate data to those IP ranges (and they'd usually apply bandwidth throttling to around 1.5Mbps so that you'd only get 480-720p video). The key is simply not discriminating between providers within a category.
- dehrmann 3y agoThis is the situation where net neutrality falls over because there's very often more demand, even at 1.5Mbps for a stream, than an airplane's link can provide.
- haswell 3y agoAirlines, coffee shops and similar entities providing Internet as an ancillary service were not subject to these rules when they were in effect. The rules primarily target ISPs selling directly to customers.
- dehrmann 3y agoIt also fails for mobile data and large crowds. Try checking your email at a concert.
- RulerOf 3y agoI always enable my 5G when I get into big crowds and it usually fixes that problem, assuming service is available. I usually keep it off otherwise though because average bandwidth tends to be better on LTE in my experience.
- Dylan16807 3y agoOn an airplane in particular, you can set the limit lower for everything, and that doesn't violate neutrality.
- MostlyStable 3y agoSo many people seem to think that Net Neutrality disallowed _any_ kind of network management, when it simply disallowed service provider level preference. You can, under net neutrality, throttle _all_ video content, if you want to, you just can't only throttle YouTube and not Netflix (for example.