&gt; John Legere firmly believes that he fights for the user<p>I wish you were being sarcastic.  John is, at heart, a salesman - a mild con artist.  He is putting on an act.  <i>all</i> he cares about is making more money for tmobile - everything else is an act.<p>&gt; But he&#x27;s asking now because to him they are acting out of character<p>EFF is <i>exactly</i> acting in character.  So is Legere - as someone whose job it is to manipulate people into seeing tmobiles aggressive business tactics in the most positive light possible.<p>Legere is attacking EFF in this way because he knows that most people are very responsive to this kind of emotionalism - he is hoping to discredit EFF in the eyes of his loyal tmobile-loving social-network keyboard warriors.<p>&gt;  they&#x27;d inform T-Mobile more quietly<p>tmobile KNOWS they are throttling data! Or limiting bandwidth.   Everyone involved already knows this! Legere only squabbles over semantics, otherwise he is bragging about this throttling.<p>&gt; Are they being paid to? If they fought for the consumers, why would they attack such a consumer friendly company such as T-Mobile?<p>That is exactly the kind of nonsense which Legere is hoping people will think.