Throttling Netflix To Serve AT&T And Verizon

Netflix is Making Videos Look Like Garbage on AT&T and Verizon

Romain Dillet | March 25, 2016

If you’ve tried streaming Master of None from your tablet running on Verizon or AT&T, chances are it looked like a big pile of unwatchable pixels. It turns out Netflix is quietly capping videos on these networks so that you don’t burn through your entire data cap in just a few hours.
How bad do these videos look? Netflix is streaming videos at a resolution of 360p with a bitrate of 600kbps on AT&T and Verizon’s wireless networks (side note: Verizon owns AOL, and AOL owns TechCrunch). In other words, even on a normal smartphone with a 5-inch display you’re going to see that it looks bad.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/25/netflix-is-voluntarily-making-videos-look-like-garbage-on-att-and-verizon/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity_1462_8948570341234946444

<more at http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/25/netflix-is-voluntarily-making-videos-look-like-garbage-on-att-and-verizon/?ncid=rss&cps=gravity_1462_8948570341234946444; related links and stories: http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/netflix-and-buffer-service-admits-to-throttling-video-on-mobile-devices/ (Netflix And Buffer? Service Admits To Throttling Video On Mobile Devices. March 28, 2016) and http://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-throttles-its-videos-on-at-t-verizon-phones-1458857424 (http://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-throttles-its-videos-on-at-t-verizon-phones-1458857424. March 24, 2016)>