Tl;dr
The Netflix plan bundled with your T-Mobile subscription is going away, you will have an option to include a Netflix with Ads subscription if you are on a high enough plan.
In addition, Netflix will begin restricting some content behind subscription tiers.I did not get that from the article. At least that Netflix was going away entirely.
Third paragraph.
This one?
Without any warning, it appears that the Netflix “Standard with ads” plan offered for free to high-paying T-Mobile customers has also started to restrict some content. That’s right, certain movies and TV shows that are technically available on Netflix can’t actually be streamed by T-Mo subscribers even with ad support, and as insane as it sounds, that’s intended behavior on the streaming platform’s part rather than the result of some temporary glitch or error.
Because if that’s the one, it’s not saying Netflix is going away. It’s saying that Netflix is restricting what can be streamed, which is not T-Mobile’s fault.
Yet another shitty consequence of failing to enforce net neutrality.
How does this have anything to do with net neutrality? This is simply netflix’s fault.
It has to do with net neutrality in the sense that T-Mobile should never have been allowed to bundle Netflix to begin with. If the subscribers never had the “perk,” they wouldn’t be missing it now that it’s diminished.
That’s not net neutrality. At all.
Yes, it is. Bundling “free” services is basically equivalent to zero-rating, in that it abuses the carrier’s privileged position in order to pick winners and losers from among what ought to be independent services.
Carriers should be 100% impartial, and partnering with a content provider is the antithesis of that.
Ah, i see.