Mobile operator T-Mobile has slashed the amount of bandwidth that it considers “fair use” and banned the downloading of videos.
“Our Mobile Broadband and internet on your phone service is best used for browsing which means looking at your favorite websites like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, BBC News and more, checking your email and looking for information, but not watching videos or downloading files,” the outfit said. “If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband”
Babel Fish translation
Our mobile data network is so oversubscribed that we can no longer provide our customers with mobile internet at the price we initially agreed to. So we are reducing the monthly allowance from 1GB to 500MB. This will help with our profits figures which rest assured, we will endeavour not to spend on improving our network infrastructure but on making more flash-mob videos.