It turns out there's a lot more to BingeOn than "optimizing".
There's been a lot of talk for the last year or so over how closely T-Mobile walks the line between violating Net Neutrality with their features, and that conversation got louder than ever. A service that promised to work with specific providers to make streaming video free, as long as you agreed to only stream in 480p from those providers. For budget-savvy consumers, this seemed like a pretty sweet deal. For anyone interested in making sure T-Mobile treats everything you do you on your phone the same way, it sounded like a nightmare that would no only be difficult to manage but next to impossible to keep from stepping on the toes of content providers who weren't partners.
A couple of weeks ago, YouTube — which is not a BingeOn partner — claimed T-Mobile was . T-Mobile quickly responded with a statement claiming what YouTube viewers experienced was . Thanks to some thorough testing from the EFF, we now know what T-Mobile is doing to videos that aren't included in BingeOn is exactly throttling, and brings the company even closer to the line between violating and not violating Net Neutrality laws.
