T-Mobile US has announced this week that many of their subscribers will soon be able to stream unlimited video without worrying about it counting towards their data caps.
"Video streams free," T-Mobile CEO John Legere said Tuesday. "Binge on. Start watching your shows, stop watching your data."
The deal applies to anyone who pays for at least 3GB of data per month and at launch the ... [ read the full article ]
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I think you are wrong in many ways. First of all, net neutrality doesn't cover mobile phones. Also, the rules are mostly intended for hard-wired ISP's that are controlling access to the telephone poles' "last mile" where it breaks out from the fiber backbone to coax or twisted pair before entering a home. Additionally, the rules are meant to provide equal access to websites without showing a preference by means of blocking or throttling. In this case, the only throttling being done is to the websites that are involved in the free data, which in itself does not violate the rules because that still isn't throttling any competitors, and even that can be bypassed by users who would rather use their data like normal to enjoy their choice of video quality. I could go on for hours, I think you are wrong on this
First of all T-Mobile means mobile service. How many subscribers would be owning devices that support 1080p resolution that will appear bad when playing back 480p videos? I watch 480p videos on my 26" LCD monitor all the time. I am hearing impaired. I play these videos at 70% speed to be able to read the subtitles. I have no complaints. What T-Mobile is probably trying to do is prevent their networks getting saturated. Only people who MAY have grounds to complain would be those using something like Chromecast to view on much larger screens. Even in that case if you have playback software that does a decent job of scaling and you are sitting at the recommended distance from the screen there should be no problem.
