T-Mobile&#x27;s line is pure marketing BS to make what is basically QoS sound like something more advanced than what it is.  It&#x27;s not like we&#x27;ve never seen this sort of reality distortion before have we?<p>The EFF is right that it&#x27;s throttling <i>and</i> T-Mobile is right for not wanting to call it throttling for very obvious reasons.  <i>And</i> It is also &quot;adaptive video technology&quot;, the EFF seems to think that term has any predefined meaning but it doesn&#x27;t, T-Mobile literally made it up.<p>I disagree with the EFF&#x27;s assertions about opt-in vs opt-out, they seems to not want to accept reality and why T-Mobile is doing this.  T-Mobile, and anyone who isn&#x27;t AT&amp;T or Verizon, is very bandwidth constrained because of the way spectrum is auctioned off.  They are trying to maintain acceptable service for their customers but can&#x27;t if everyone is streaming 1080p video from the internet.  While throttling is usually a poor decision for bandwidth management, persistent streaming is an exception where it helps.  By turning this on by default, they&#x27;re freeing up a lot of congestion.  Most people won&#x27;t know or care and those that do have a way to turn the service off.<p>That being said, T-Mobile isn&#x27;t just degrading service, they&#x27;re offering you incentives for accepting the degraded service.  If you don&#x27;t want the offering, you can turn it off easily.