Just had to give my 2 on the part of the last show where it got into the Net Neutrality talk:

[G+_Ken H]

Just had to give my 2¢ on the part of the last show where it got into the Net Neutrality talk:

 

I would agree with your guest IF T-Mobile was preventing the "small video content provider from Iowa" from joining in. They stated there is no money changing hands and that they just have to make sure their service is compatible (which I assume means where T-Mobile can detect that content on their network) to be a part of "Binge On". On top of that if customers don't want their video to be compressed at all they can turn off this and go back to having any service count against their high speed data limits.

 

Now I get the whole "setting precedence" argument but I'm not going to be blaming T-Mobile if next week or month Verizon (or whoever) comes up with a "me too" campaign and totally screws over either their customers again or small content providers because they don't understand what people want (or rather don't care).

 

Basically it's the same tired argument that happened when they announced Music Freedom. I'm really happy they brought this (even to their prepaid plans like the infamous $30/mo 5GB plan) and only hope more providers (cough cough... YouTube... cough cough) join in?

[G+_L I]

Net Neutrality rules don't apply to wireless providers do they?

 

Even so, as mentioned on TWiT this past Sunday, Comcast is flaunting Net Neutrality on their wired service offering no-data video for their apps - so nothing will matter unless the FCC actually enforces these alleged violations.