Well they sure are throtling it now

Who's they specifically?

According to that university study

All of the providers

To a different degree

... All?

Thats what the study says according to the reports

All four of the big mobile carriers in the US restrict mobile video streaming to 480p by default unless paying extra for plans allowing HD streams. This isn’t new information, but the study details how often traffic is being throttled and for which services.

Data was collected from around 100,000 people who were asked to download a mobile app called Wehe which monitored network traffic for “differentiation” when using apps. Around 500,000 tests were conducted across 2,000 service providers in 161 countries.

Verizon and AT&T were found to be throttling users’ data the most, by far. Respectively, the providers “differentiated” streaming video speeds 11,100 and 8,398 times. T-Mobile throttled 3,900 times, while Sprint was found the least with just 339 occurrences.

YouTube is the number one target of throttling, followed by Prime Video, Netflix, Spotify, Skype, NBC Sports, and Vimeo.

Isn't it more expensive for them if they don't throttle netflix?

Like, netflix will drain the hose the fastest.

It depends on what kind of plan you have

Most plans in europe no longer have the upper data limits

At least in my country

You just pay for speed of the connection

weve never had data limits here

We used to have them

apart from mobile

You would get lets say 5 gb of normal speed

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And after tou breach it they would slow it down for the rest of the month

most "unlimited" plans here in the states don't have a data limit, just a limit of how much data you can use before being throttled

So yeah its the thing we used to have

You have it fast until you breach the limit

I used to get quarterly reports of how much data I dl'd 😛 it was in the hundreds of terabytes 😛

Lel

No no no.

Think about it in terms of sheer energy consumption

Doesn't Netflix take the most out per person

thats not the problem with data

Why ?

the problem is not all packets are created equally

Created EQUALITY

streaming data takes up much more of the pipeline than like a webpage

haha point and laugh at grenade and his typos

Well i know nothing about that

So basically tou are saying streams stress the line more then downloading of data ?

yes

Well till now nobody ever made any difference as far as i know