&gt; The service is optional from all sides: both the consumer and the content provider.<p>Are you sure that content providers are opting in?  I&#x27;ve read that services like youtube are being throttled, while not benefiting from being included in the &#x27;free streaming&#x27; services.<p>And Legere was implying that Google may have bribed EFF to attack T-Mobile on Google&#x27;s behalf, suggesting that Google wasn&#x27;t happy; I assumed this is because Google is not happy that T-Mobile is throttling youtube (presumably) without their consent.