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T-Mobile started the slippery slope and legitimazed the idea of limited video with their "Binge On" program. If you turn on "Binge On", you only get down-sampled, bandwidth-limited video. The trade-off was that they agreed not to charge you for watching downsampled video. They also let you turn this feature on or off, so there's an upside.

But. There's a trick.

T-mobile now offers a single plan, "T-Mobile ONE." All videos are downsampled by default and you can't disable that without paying extra.

The customers' wallets have spoken.

parent gcr 10 years ago

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