If you're a T-Mobile customer who recently had their Netflix perk downgraded, you may have noticed that some TV shows and movies are no longer accessible at all (even with ads), which is making a lot of users boil with anger.
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.
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.
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.