T-Mobile’s reply to YouTube’s throttling accusations: “we are optimizing it”
Remember last week when YouTube accused T-Mobile of throttling video traffic? T-Mobile’s reply: it wasn’t throttling the video traffic but simply optimizing content for mobile consumption.
The FCC will be keeping a close eye on T-Mobile with Binge-On’s controversial nature against Net Neutrality since the service technically puts a kind of preference on a certain type of traffic than all other traffic.
Remember, YouTube was the one who told the Wall Street Journal that T-Mobile was throttling YouTube’s traffic. Saying that while reducing charges is good for customers, throttling traffic without customers’ knowledge doesn’t justify the former.
T-Mobile clams the problem with its inability to correctly identify YouTube traffic is the system that flags video traffic to be exempt from the data allotments. Since the Q&A at the Uncarrier event, the point of implementing a better system to tell video traffic apart came up, T-Mobile answered that there are still some kinks to work out in the process of telling video traffic apart.
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Reader comments
- AnonD-480562
- g4E
Sadly for me, my phone connects to my TV via HDMI so my unlimited data may get throttled, and playing on a big screen for a small size frame is no so good quality.
- AnonD-480562
- g4E
To control. When they throttle your speeds, that means they can reduce your LTE speeds down to 3G speeds. Say if you watch a 1080p video on YouTube, when they throttle your connection, the quality will force the video to play at 480p instead.
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