Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is doing throttling

Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by RangerScience on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:46AM (#18013055)

I don't know either. The significant thing shouldn't be that video vs pics vs text is throttled (although that's an important thing that should be part of purchasing information), but whether Hulu vs Netflix are throttled.

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Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by lucb1e on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:47AM (#18013062)

Yep, there's a reason that's legal under net neutrality laws:

- If you need to block streaming video because that's the only way your public WiFi on trains is going to work, iirc you can do that without any legal issues.

- If you zero-rate music services as a marketing stunt, go ahead, but then you shall zero-rate all music services. (Still seems annoying, as a music service, to go around the world and apply to every ISP offering this (i.e. it still makes it slightly harder for newcomers), but I guess it's not unreasonable.)

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Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by buboard on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:07AM (#18013166)

i thought the old american NN rules did not allow zero rating

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Re:Research shows that nearly every U.S. cell provider is do... by lucb1e on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:12AM (#18014528)

Not sure. The old Dutch ones certainly didn't, but after t-mobile didn't care and went to the ECJ, Dutch laws were brought in line with European ones and this is what we have now.

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