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Binge On, Opt In, Truth Out
Alfredo Lopez
Last week, T-Mobile's CEO John Lagere pubicly asked the Electronic Frontier Foundation a straightforward question: “Who the f*** are you anyway, EFF? Why are you stirring up so much trouble and who pays you?”
The question, delivered in a short podcast by the telephone mogul, was in response to a question EFF had asked T-Mobile: Doesn't your latest video product, called Binge On, violate both the letter and spirit of the Net Neutrality laws?
That attack on EFF was the second part of Lagere's response. Most commentators agree that it was just a dumb rant. The first part of his response was that Binge On's software, which selects the best available data-stream for the user, doesn't violate any Net Neutrality laws at all. That, the EFF says, is a lie.
John Lagere
In the resulting dust-up, T-Mobile has suffered a significant public relations hit and many technology analysts are now aggressively debating whether the company not only violated FCC rules but misled its customers in the process.
But the real question is whether this is actually illegal. If it isn't, T-Mobile's new product may be the first step taken by a telecommunications company in a dance several cellphone giants are about to join. Everyone in this industry is looking for a way around the FCC's Net Neutrality decision and some say T-Mobile may have found one. It's another round in the fight to keep the Internet alive.
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Source: http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/2993
