Just a few months after the FCC repealed Net Neutrality rules, new research shows exactly what supporters of net neutrality had feared.
Mobile phone companies are throttling your streaming video from services like Netflix. The end result is slower speeds and lower quality video streaming to your phone or mobile device.
This is according to peer-reviewed research conducted by Northeastern University Assistant Professor Dave Choffnes, along with a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“There’s no evidence that any of these policies are only happening during network overload,” Choffnes told News at Northeastern. “They’re throttling video traffic even when the network doesn’t need to. It happens 24/7, and in every region where we have tests.”
The researchers say throttling is being used by AT&T, TMobile, Sprint, Boost, Rogers, Verizon and many others.
And here's something to note if you are always streaming video: the research found Verizon is the least restrictive major carrier when it comes to throttling.
Read more from the researchers and see an interactive throttling chart, here.
It appears the repeal of Net Neutrality is already having an impact. But here's the real question: have you noticed?
