Bandwidth throttling, as I prefer to call it, began most apparently with Comcast – only because they got caught – of course their valiant effort was in order to prevent what they deemed to be abuse by bandwidth hogs (paraphrase and allegedly) – their outward guise to prevent mass data transfer of illegal music, stolen movies and potential pornographic material of a lascivious nature.
AT&T allegedly filed last Friday with the FCC a “usage-based pricing” model as a form of network management. Streaming service providers and viewers question the impact on HD streaming media quality and accessibility; However, in my mind, the caustic effect will be the ever widening codec /player gap we had hoped to shrink through partnership and collaboration.