T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately

Re:T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Appl... by JoshTriplett on Monday January 04, 2016 @12:59PM (#10837143)

> * it MUST be unencrypted to get the no-data-usage benefits

I haven't seen that one mentioned anywhere. Clearly they only recognize and throttle video from other servers when unencrypted (since they don't throttle other downloads from the same servers), but for services signed up with T-Mobile's "Binge On", it seems easy enough to ignore the bandwidth usage based on server IP, rather than sniffing file types. Do they really recognize the servers they partner with based on traffic sniffing rather than IP?

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Re:T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Appl... by Klathmon on Monday January 04, 2016 @01:02PM (#10837164)

I thought all of the music apps that joined their program earlier had that imposed on them, however I can't seem to find where i read that so i might be wrong there.

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Re:T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Appl... by ianlevesque on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:48PM (#10840101)

It's IP range or http URL pattern matching, we had to provide this information when we joined the music program. Interestingly they also try to exclude the related ad traffic, if any, but that's challenging due to how undocumented and varied ad networks are.

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Re:T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Appl... by piffey on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:38PM (#10839283)

During their uncarrier launch event their CTO mentioned that they share certificates with partner services so they can inspect and do their magic on HTTPS traffic. I can't actually look up the video archive right now due to traveling, but I specifically remember it during the Q&A session at the end because I was curious if there was some MITM action going on.

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