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CEO T-Mobile John Legere is really fighting hard to rotate the probable violation of his company's net neutrality rules as some benefits for consumers impeccably designed. After a rant last week that the collateral damage included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Legere has just published another screed about Binge T-Mobile on the scheme -. And it's just more of the same misdirection
Reminder: last week, the EFF published a survey which found T-Mobile was strangled all video traffic on its network including video downloads to all customers who have not disabled the Binge depending which the company automatically enabled for everyone in November. Before the EFF released its report, I even noticed the video capability demoted on T-Mobile's network without realizing what was happening :.
@ JohnLegere hey how is YouTube can not play without buffering on this connection is that a new feature uncarrier pic.twitter .com / Z5rvVlVvt4
- tc (@chillmage) the December 31, 2015
T-Mobile is talking out of both sides of the mouth on the issue. Legere euphemistic insisted repeatedly that T-Mobile is simply "optimization" video stream. But the spokesman for the company confirmed for both the EFF and Wired T-Mobile is indeed strangle internet speeds for customers when they try to stream or download video files from any supplier, even those who have not formally associated with the program Binge.
"Open Letter to consumers Binge On" today Legere double down on the crap. Legere said facts on T-Mobile were "lost or buried in the dialog box over the past week," which is a declaration dishonestly, it could make your head spin. Here are some statements more choices Legere last :.
T-Mobile is a company that absolutely supports net neutrality and we believe in a free and open Internet
... here's the thing, which is one why is Binge on a neutral capacity very "pro" net - you can activate and deactivate your account MyTMobile -. Whenever you want
T-Mobile is to break the mold
In fact, T-Mobile seems to be breaking 2015 Open Internet order from the FCC, which established long sought after net neutrality rules. The relevant language of the order of
Clear, bright-line rules
Because folder massively supports the adoption of rules and demonstrates that three specific practices still hinder the open Internet - blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization -. This order prohibits all of them, by applying the same rules to both the Internet access service high speed fixed and mobile
Yes, that's right - the FCC (and defenders of net neutrality) not thinking choke was so important, the FCC established a ban as a rule bright line. This is about the prohibition of limiting the FCC.
Although some high speed driving Internet access provider can degrade the Internet experience for the end user equivalent to block, we believe that this conduct requires the delimitation in a rule explicit rather than through comments in the no- blocking rule.271 well, we adopt a separate non-limitation rule applicable to fixed and mobile Internet access providers of broadband service:
a person engaged in the provision of Internet access broadband services, to the extent that that person is so, must not compromise or degrade lawful Internet traffic based on Internet content, application, or service, or the use of non-harmful device, subject to reasonable network management.With the non-limitation rule, we ban non outright blocking behavior, but inhibits particular content delivery, applications or services, or particular classes of content, applications or services.
net neutrality rules the FCC does not seem to care whether the plans that implement the restriction is "FREE", or you can disable them after having to hunt for right in a dashboard online. (As a customer of T-Mobile, I can tell you that it is not immediately clear how to turn off the same Binge on the T-Mobile website.)
We are not falling for the rotation of T-Mobile, and you should not either. The only question that remains is whether the FCC decides to apply the rules that he fought for so many years to create.