Disclaimer: I had been an AT&amp;T mobile customer for more than a decade and subscribed with Verizon and Sprint each for a few years before jumped to T-Mobile about 2 years ago and happily ever since.<p>If you read through the entire EFF report on BingeOn [1], you will see that there are only two problems EFF had with T-Mobile&#x27;s BingeOn program:<p>1. &quot;Throttle&quot; or &quot;Downgrade&#x2F;optimize&quot; (pick a word depending on your viewpoint for either side) of all HTML5 video streams<p>2. Opt-in by default<p>Net neutrality debates aside, I love BingeOn since day one and didn&#x27;t notice much of degradation of video quality when I watch videos with BingOn (I still left it on)<p>All the arguments EFF against BingeOn, T-Mobile can easily tweak their program to easily comply.<p>Regarding #1, I suspect it&#x27;s more of a technical challenge than an illicit intent [2] (of saving data bandwidth, which of course if the win-win situation T-Mobile wanted). Some like YouTube has proprietary steaming intricacies that T-Mobile have had technical difficulties to selectively &quot;Throttle&quot; or &quot;Downgrade&quot; only content partners so it&#x27;s easier to just do it for all as hinted by this WSJ article about YouTube&#x27;s reluctance of signing on BingOn.[3]<p>As far as #2 goes, again, no doubt T-Mobile wanted to save their bandwidth at the same time get credits for it putting a marketing campaign around its practice, but EFF (given the sensitivity about Net neutrality) and YouTube(very opinionated about user experience on video quality) certainly have different viewpoints about it.<p>In the end, as a T-Mobile customer, my heart still sides with John Legere&#x27;s latest unconventional and controversial un-carrier move because<p>A) I still have a choice to turn BingeOn off (though I won&#x27;t as I would rather save 2&#x2F;3 of my data cap to do something else and very gladly and gracefully accept my zero-rated video content allowances on partnered video sites.)<p>B) I am optimistic about T-Mobile to eventually figure out a way to selectively (as opposed to indiscriminately) &quot;optimize&quot; video content on only partnered video sites so that it will be more compliant with net neutrality. There is a technical challenge to overcome after all.<p>C) Despite of profanity and inappropriate wardrobes, I, as an mobile customer, love what John Legere has done for wireless subscribers in the U.S. and the direction he set for the industry. Needless to say, results are self-explanatory. [4]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;eff-confirms-t-mobiles-bingeon-optimization-just-throttling-applies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;eff-confirms-t-mobiles...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidcentral.com&#x2F;bingeon-terrible-purpose-and-john-legere-needs-stop" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.androidcentral.com&#x2F;bingeon-terrible-purpose-and-j...</a><p>[3]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;t-mobiles-problem-with-youtube-whats-a-video-and-whats-not&#x2F;?mod=rss_Technology" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.wsj.com&#x2F;digits&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;12&#x2F;t-mobiles-problem-wit...</a><p>[4]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3046877&#x2F;who-the-is-this-guy-john-legeres-strategy-for-taking-new-customers-by-storm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3046877&#x2F;who-the-is-this-guy-john-...</a>