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 netneutralish on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:57AM (#10865248)

After that, they degrade services that are not paying them and zero-rate + allow higher bitrates for services that pay them.

"degrade services that are not paying them" and "allow higher bitrates for services that pay them" would even more blatantly violate FCC net neutrality in the US.

T-Mobile here is circumventing this by only zero-rating with an opt-out mechanism. If they tried to pull a stunt like Deutsche Telekom in Germany, they'd be fined in no time by the FCC in a clear and shut case. They are doing something far more subtle here in the US.

EDIT: For clarity, Deutsche Telekom is a majority shareholder of T-Mobile USA.

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Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu... by Brotkrumen on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:40PM (#10868516)

I hope you are right. FCC lauds BingeOn though and T-mobile might argue that it's a customers choice to degrade videos of non-zero rated partners.

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