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Comment by askafriend | Hacker News Reader

The level of ignorance and intentional misdirection by Tmobile's CEO here is incredible.

I say this as a customer :/

The short video sounds like what you'd hear from any salesperson to me. A rough outline of the talking points, but no real understanding of how what they're selling works. Which is OK, it's not their job to be technical, but it does sound really crummy when you actually do understand what they're talking about. For example, "proprietary technology" sounds good to whoever this guy usually talks to. It sounds like nonsense to us.

The sales department. Am I right, engineers?

What's even more appalling is that he so vehemently refuses to acknowledge the throttling of data throughput even after EFF reached out to TMobile separately and the company confirmed it. HIS OWN COMPANY CONFIRMED IT!!!

That's just comedy.

It's various shades of spin. For unencrypted videos, T-Mobile might be using other techniques beyond throttling (e.g. downshifting the resolution). Or perhaps he's trying to get around strict throttling by claiming (in his head) that they're only throttling videos, while other data isn't being touched.

I wonder if he's on an internal hunt to find out who confirmed to the EFF that videos were being "throttled".

Agreed. I don't even consider using my mobile bandwidth for video but that sort of network fuckery is appalling to me.

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