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Re:Friends, Please Tell T-Mobile’s CEO About EFF by zo7 on Thursday January 07, 2016 @09:50PM (#10862605)
> Personally, I really do believe the throttling here is not intended behavior of Binge On. I honestly do.

Could you elaborate on this? I wasn't aware about Binge On before, but going just off this incident it appeared to me like deceptive behavior on T-Mobile's part. I feel like I don't have enough information to make a fair judgement though.

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Re:Friends, Please Tell T-Mobile’s CEO About EFF by jshevek on Thursday January 07, 2016 @09:53PM (#10862621)
The throttling (or downgraded bandwidth) in question is intrinsic to the very purpose of bingeon. Tmobile sends you lower quality videos, but they don't count against your data use.

But they did this to everyone, making it an opt out rather than an opt in.

And they are throttling (downgrading bandwidth) videos of sites that did not ask to be a part of this program.

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