The Journal quoted Netflix as saying it had limited its videos to most wireless carriers across the globe, capping them at 600 kiliobits-per-second, to “protect consumers from exceeding mobile data caps.”
Okay, certainly not good without letting people know, but if you’re watching on a phone, you probably wouldn’t notice a quality difference.
“We’re outraged to learn that Netflix is apparently throttling video for their AT&T customers without their knowledge or consent,” Jim Cicconi, AT&T senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs wrote in an email.
That made me laugh out loud. AT&T would probably do the same thing if they thought they could get away with it.
Oh, that’s some awesome stuff there! Nice!
“If anyone’s going to fuck over our customers, it’ll be us!”
Indeed.
https://youtu.be/SjbPi00k_ME
Luckily the AT&T guy didn’t say what he was really mad about. But let’s imagine we could hear what he was really thinking…
AT&T Guy’s stream of consciousness: consumers are supposed to exceed their data caps, you idiots! We make a gazillion dollars every day from suckers who we treat as pee-nyah-tahs … that sounds like pea-nyah-cold-latta… see-nyor-eetah… um- yeah stupid netflix
Meanwhile, Comcast and/or CNNgo is doing everything it can to make streaming on Apple TV 4 a miserable experience. CNNgo disconnects, stalls, freezes, and plays the SAME F’ING ads over and over and over.
Much ado about nothing.