T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fuck Are You, EFF?'

Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu... by coldpie on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:16AM (#10864947)

The short video sounds like what you'd hear from any salesperson to me. A rough outline of the talking points, but no real understanding of how what they're selling works. Which is OK, it's not their job to be technical, but it does sound really crummy when you actually do understand what they're talking about. For example, "proprietary technology" sounds good to whoever this guy usually talks to. It sounds like nonsense to us.

The sales department. Am I right, engineers?

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Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu... by askafriend on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:25AM (#10865017)

What's even more appalling is that he so vehemently refuses to acknowledge the throttling of data throughput even after EFF reached out to TMobile separately and the company confirmed it. HIS OWN COMPANY CONFIRMED IT!!!

That's just comedy.

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Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu... by netneutralish on Friday January 08, 2016 @10:20AM (#10865436)

It's various shades of spin. For unencrypted videos, T-Mobile might be using other techniques beyond throttling (e.g. downshifting the resolution). Or perhaps he's trying to get around strict throttling by claiming (in his head) that they're only throttling videos, while other data isn't being touched.

I wonder if he's on an internal hunt to find out who confirmed to the EFF that videos were being "throttled".

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