Understandably to the outrage of customers of these (and other) networks, Netflix has secretly been throttling bandwidth to customers of these particular mobile networks for years.
This is despite Netflix claiming to have been a supporter of Net Neutrality in recent years. Netflix have now gone on record to say they will be "looking at new ways to give its users more control over video quality. Part of those plans include a new "mobile data saver" feature that will land later this year, the report notes."
So yeah, that kinda sucks. The problem now is though is this seems to be a global practice, I don't know if the network I'm on here in the UK (o2) is affected either...
Without making this clear to end users, this has caused certain, what Netflix call 'consumer friendly' networks to gain an unfair advantage when it comes to streaming Netflix.The popular video service said Thursday that for more than five years it has limited its video speeds to most wireless carriers across the globe, including AT&T and Verizon, to "protect consumers from exceeding mobile data caps," which may discourage future viewing.
This is despite Netflix claiming to have been a supporter of Net Neutrality in recent years. Netflix have now gone on record to say they will be "looking at new ways to give its users more control over video quality. Part of those plans include a new "mobile data saver" feature that will land later this year, the report notes."
So yeah, that kinda sucks. The problem now is though is this seems to be a global practice, I don't know if the network I'm on here in the UK (o2) is affected either...