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by rhino369 3817 days ago
Virtually nobody is going to care about throttling you can turn off yourself. They probably shouldn't have defaulted it on, but 1080p video over LTE is a shitty use of network resources.

I'm more pissed off they were advertising free video streaming yet it's only on the more expensive data plan. I burnt through my data allotment at the airport in a single afternoon because I believed the advertising.

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...but 1080p video over LTE is a shitty use of network resources...

Agreed, but if you spend any time in the dens of the cordcutters, this was a key part of their plan. Not saying it was a smart plan, just their plan and why they're so upset now.

I totally don't blame TMO for doing what they did to preserve tower time from the hogs, but their execution was pretty lousy.

I thought cordcutters meant you didn't subscribe to cable TV.
You're subscribing to pay television, just delivering it over another mode of transport.