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AT&T exempts HBO Max from data caps but still limits your Netflix use;:
AT&T's new HBO Max streaming service is exempt from the carrier's mobile data caps, even though competing services such as Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ count against the monthly data limits. This news was reported today in an article by The Verge, which said that AT&T "confirmed to The Verge that HBO Max will be excused from the company's traditional data caps and the soft data caps on unlimited plans."
The traditional data caps limit customers to a certain amount of data each month before they have to pay overage fees or face extreme slowdowns for the rest of the month. "Soft data caps on unlimited plans" apparently is a reference to the 22GB or 50GB thresholds, after which unlimited-data users may be prioritized below other users when connecting to a congested cell tower.
"According to an AT&T executive familiar with the matter, HBO Max is using AT&T's 'sponsored data' system, which technically allows any company to pay to excuse its services from data caps," The Verge wrote. "But since AT&T owns HBO Max, it's just paying itself: the data fee shows up on the HBO Max books as an expense and on the AT&T Mobility books as revenue. For AT&T as a whole, it zeroes out. Compare that to a competitor like Netflix, which could theoretically pay AT&T for sponsored data, but it would be a pure cost."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @04:39PM (2 children)
and I hear that some of that is really protest sabotagers breaking windows and vandalizing places so that they can make the protesters look bad. We don't really know the extent of that problem, it's not like those doing it are going to admit to it, but it is something to consider. I hear that peaceful protesters were trying to tell the sabotogers to stop but the sabotogers kept on doing it because they are against the protesters and want to make them look bad. Some of those people are probably part of Antifa. So I don't give the protesters all the credit. I give protest sabotagers some of it. There is no such thing as a peaceful protest if protest sabotagers are going to simply attend the protest, wear masks, and start vandalizing everything to make the peaceful protesters look bad. Now every protest is riddled with violence and vandalism but those committing the violence and vandalism are in fact opposed to the protesters and their message.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @04:44PM (1 child)
Here is an article about it.
"Beware white supremacists masquerading among Baltimore protesters | READER COMMENTARY"
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-white-supremacists-protests-letter-20200602-pbijucewxjeahcqhczheiyehr4-story.html [baltimoresun.com]
Someone I know attended one of the protests in LA and said that they saw evidence that the people doing the vandalism were sabotogers. Wouldn't surprise me at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 07 2020, @06:27PM
While possibly true in limited instances, this is largely ridiculous bullshit. The white agitators are going to be 1) antifa 2) feds and cops. 3) nuts of various stripes. Cultural Marxist diversion notwithstanding.