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Nevertheless, it’s a good thing, and it helps demonstrate the value of the state’s net neutrality law in promoting a free and open internet.įor the record, AT&T insists that it supports an open, competitive internet. In truth, AT&T’s move could pinch some mobile users who are active streamers. That’s easy enough to do at home not so easy while, say, waiting in line at the mobile vaccination site. So from now on, AT&T customers hoping to stream HBO Max’s “Justice League” on their phones will have to do so at the expense of their monthly data allotment unless they can find a WiFi connection. They can exempt applications from data caps (a practice known as “zero rating”), but only if they do so for every application at no charge to the provider. In particular, the “Data Free TV” program enabled customers to stream video from selected services, including AT&T’s own HBO Max, without using up their monthly data allowances.īut under California’s law, internet providers can’t charge sites and services for that sort of thing.
But those consumers may not be so pleased with the results.ĪT&T informed its nationwide cellphone customers on Wednesday that it was ending a program that allowed websites and services to buy their way around AT&T’s data caps. Having survived an initial court challenge, California’s net neutrality law is having its first tangible effects on consumers and their internet service providers.
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