All video will be downgraded to 480p unless you pay extra. That is as blatant as a net neutrality violation as they get. It was pretty clear that this was T-Mobile's ultimate end goal when they introduced the Binge On feature that allowed data to circumvent data caps. I'm just sad that we allowed them to get away with this obvious bait and switch tactic to get public approval for anti-net neutrality behavior.
As a very satisfied T-Mobile customer, these changes sound awful to me.<p>- $70/month, not $50/month. That's a 40% price increase<p>- Wifi hotspot now costs an additional $15/month, or runs only at 2G speeds<p>- The existing $50/month plan will no longer be available to new users who are joining T-Mobile.<p>I don't use a whole bunch of data. ~2GB/month is perfectly sufficient for me. What I really love about my current plan is the cheap price ($50 per month), and the fact that it includes extremely fast wifi hotspot. These are the exact 2 things they have taken away from the plan. Maybe this is a positive development for many customers, but I personally hate it.
So, $15/mo extra for packets to originate from a device other than your phone. Another $25/mo for "HD Video" (That is, if you pay $25, Uncle Legere won't take your TCP connection out back and bust it's knee-caps)<p>How the hell did we end up in the situation where Verizon is the most sensible carrier with regard to net neutrality (A bit is a bit is a bit, be it from laptop, phone, tablet, netflix, google, or HN).
I use MetroPCS. If it's available where you live, you can't beat it. $60/month for truly unlimited, non throttled 4G with unlimited tethering. Speeds are usually 10-15 Mbps. I use hundreds of gigs/month tethered to my laptop.
I'm one of those people that has an old old old AT&T plan with the original unlimited data package. Even if it's limited to 23GB if the area has some congestion, at $80/mo it's still a way better deal for me than most of these plans.<p>I average 5-7gb/data a month, and almost none of it is music or video. It's all just average use, email, Facebook, iMessage, stuff like that. It's amazing how much data Reddit can soak up.<p>But none of the newer plans make any sense to me. Just no compelling reason to switch.
Urg... I wish TMobile had better coverage where I love. I'm stuck with AT&T which just halved my data plan, but they removed overages do it kinda makes up for it...
What happens if youtube switches even the content servers to HTTPS? How will they be able to cap that?
Also in general: If a mp4-file is directly hosted on a webpage which is served over HTTPS: How will they detect this?
How do they enforce the tethering 2G cap? A proxy that you could easily configure on the computer? And would evading the video res lock be as easy as using a proxy/VPN of your own?