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For context, Netflix’s recommended bandwidth minimums are 5 Mbps for HD video and 25 Mbps for Ultra HD quality.
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In a post Monday on Reddit, a Netflix user in the Netherlands claimed they were seeing bit rates for 1080p HD movies range from 0.8 megabits per second to 1.5 Mbps, while Ultra HD 4K movies were at 7.5 Mbps. “Some titles are horrible… Meanwhile they keep charging normal rates.” We agree with John Legere: it’s time to set the record straight.Netflix’s bit-rate throttling is “quite obvious just by watching on my 65-inch OLED,” Anders Nygren, a Netflix customer in Sweden, told Variety. The fact is, T-Mobile isn't being honest with its customers. They would also zero-rate all videos they throttle, not just the videos of providers who have enrolled. And if Binge On was really about helping customers stretch their data, then T-Mobile wouldn’t have automatically enabled Binge On for customers with unlimited data. If T-Mobile wanted to give its customers more choice, it would have made Binge On opt-in, not opt-out. This isn't semantics-it's apples and oranges. In other words, T-Mobile just constrains the bandwidth, and it's up to video providers to make sure their videos stream smoothly. If the video provider's server has the capability to adapt the quality of the video, then the server can do that-but it is the video provider that is using "adaptive video technology," not T-Mobile. "Throttling" means that when a video stream hits T-Mobile's network, its bandwidth is capped.

T-Mobile seems to be arguing that downgrading video quality is not actually throttling, but we disagree.
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Giving customers a choice about how to use their data so that they can stream more video without hitting their data cap is a wonderful idea. T-Mobile's Binge On service could have been great. At Noon Today, Demand Real Answers from John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile
