&quot;T-Mobile knows exactly what it&#x27;s doing. If they had announced an open platform with open specs for implementing low-bandwidth video,&quot;<p>Every streaming platform since RealVideo 
in the mid 90s has had a way to detect bandwidth and send low bandwidth video based on the amount of bandwidth available.  You can download a free streaming server right now from either Apple or Adobe that can do it.<p>&quot;and then said &quot;if you have this, we&#x27;ll use it&quot;, the end result would be that everyone could benefit from an innovation of theirs.&quot;<p>Does he really need to provide a link to Apple&#x27;s or Adobe&#x27;s free offering or the $600 WireCast solution? I&#x27;ve set up an bandwidth adaptive streaming solution for around $2000 (Mac Mini + BlackMagic Intensity + camcorder).<p>&quot;He&#x27;s smart enough to know that favoring companies that &quot;have the technology to do this&quot; really means favoring large corporations, which is bad for the little guys.&quot;<p>This &quot;technology&quot; to stream lower bitrate video based on available bit rate has been around for 20 years.