The FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban Internet providers from a number of discriminatory measures like throttling and blocking, but there’s evidently a huge loophole that every major wireless carrier in the U.S. has rushed to exploit. T-Mobile’s Binge On program, which throttles video content, is troublesome — but AT&T and Verizon’s programs are much worse, especially the one Verizon just announced today in the fine print of an update for its Go90 video app.
Verizon Betrays Net Neutrality, Excludes Its Video App From Data Caps
An end-run by the major carriers.
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Verizon’s Go90 video platform — the company’s effort to compete with its own video bundle — now won’t count against customers’ data caps. That’s a huge deal, since video eats up a lot of data on mobile devices, and especially since Verizon’s data plans are expensive.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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