&gt; there is room for people who agree on the importance of net neutrality to disagree on whether such a program has a place on a neutral internet.<p>If you agree that Net Neutrality is important on mobile, then you by definition agree that it is important to not have across the content based throttling or degradation decided by a &#x27;third party&#x27; (i.e. not the client or server).<p>Why does this matter?<p>If this sort of program becomes standard, the available market for those wishing to offer high definition mobile video will be highly constrained by the increased friction of educating people how to opt-out (not all carriers will make this as easy as T-Mobile). This doesn&#x27;t have to be Netflix, it could be a remote Doctor using WiFi to stream High Definition video of an ongoing surgery to get an emergency consult from a Specialist via his phone or hotspot.<p>There are times when &quot;incredibly high resolution rates that are barely detectable by the human eye&quot; are incredibly important and it should not up to T-Mobile to decide when that is. It should be up to the client and&#x2F;or the server (and it should be done via an open protocol.)