Netflix admits to throttling video quality on AT&T and Verizon ‘to protect consumers’

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Netflix admits to throttling video quality on AT&T and Verizon ‘to protect consumers’

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<p>If you’ve ever been disappointed with the quality of <a href="http://9to5mac.com/tag/netflix/" target="_blank">Netflix[/url] videos when streaming them on AT&amp;T or Verizon, and cursed the network for its poor connectivity, it appears that your wrath should instead have been directed towards Netflix.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-throttles-its-videos-on-at-t-verizon-phones-1458857424" target="_blank">WSJ[/url] reports that Netflix has been deliberately throttling video on mobile devices for more than five years, but only admitting it now …</p>
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