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AT&T blames net neutrality law for HBO Max counting against data caps

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Yahoo Finance
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Stanford University professor Barbara van Schewick, who has long advocated for net neutrality, also said AT&T's elimination of HBO Max zero-rating is actually a good thing for consumers. "This is a win for an open and free internet, including for competing video services and internet users," she wrote. "People should be free to choose which videos they want to watch — whether that’s Netflix, Twitch or their local church’s Sunday service, without the company they pay to get online trying to influence their choices."
AT&T lies about Calif. net neutrality law, claiming it bans “free data”

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Ars Technica
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"California's net neutrality law doesn't ban all zero-rating; it bans anti-competitive forms of zero-rating," Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick, who supported California in its court defense of the net neutrality law, told Ars today. "The law does ban AT&T's anti-competitive scheme where it counts almost everything people do on the Internet, including watching Twitch, Netflix, and their home security cameras, against users' data caps, but doesn't count the data from AT&T's own video services."
Opinion: California’s net neutrality law just cost AT&T wireless customers a free streaming perk. That’s a good thing

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Los Angeles Times
More important, as Professor Barbara van Schewick of Stanford Law School observed in an interview, “Zero-rating only works when you have a low data cap. That creates an incentive for ISPs to keep low data caps and keep unlimited plans expensive. For example, in the European Union, ISPs that don’t zero-rate video give subscribers eight times more data for the same price than ISPs that zero-rate video.” Read more about Opinion: California’s net neutrality law just cost AT&T wireless customers a free streaming perk. That’s a good thing
AT&T Pulls Sponsored Data Due To Calif. Net Neutrality Law

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Law 360
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Some Humility About Transparency

By Daphne Keller on March 19, 2021 at 3:09 am

I am a huge fan of transparency about platform content moderation. So it pains me to admit that I don’t really know what “transparency” I’m asking for. Read more about Some Humility About Transparency
AT&T Cries About Having to Play Fair Under New Net Neutrality Law

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Vice
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Not only does this let AT&T give its own services an unfair advantage in the market, the approach lets deep pocketed companies pay AT&T to be exempt from usage caps. Consumer groups say this creates an unfair marketplace where bigger, wealthier companies can buy an advantage over their smaller, cash-strapped competitors—once AT&T gets its cut.
AT&T blames net neutrality law for HBO Max counting against data caps

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Engadget
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Stanford University professor Barbara van Schewick, who has long advocated for net neutrality, also said AT&T's elimination of HBO Max zero-rating is actually a good thing for consumers. "This is a win for an open and free internet, including for competing video services and internet users," she wrote. "People should be free to choose which videos they want to watch — whether that’s Netflix, Twitch or their local church’s Sunday service, without the company they pay to get online trying to influence their choices."
HBO Max viewing will start counting against AT&T data limits

Date published:
March 18, 2021
Fortune
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In a blog post, AT&T said California’s new net neutrality law bans “sponsored data” services, which let the company pay for the data usage of customers who also subscribed to AT&T’s streaming platform.

AT&T, which developed HBO Max after buying Time Warner for $85 billion in 2018, had used sponsored data to let wireless customers stream AT&T-owned video services without it counting against their data limits. The company said the new law affects customers in states beyond California “given that the internet does not recognize state borders.”
In a Win for the Open Internet, AT&T Stops Zero-Rating its Own Video

By Barbara van Schewick on March 17, 2021 at 11:17 am

Today, AT&T Wireless announced it will be suspending its Sponsored Data program nationwide. Under this program, AT&T Wireless exempts AT&T’s video services like DirectTV Now from the data caps of its wireless Internet customers who subscribe to those services. Read more about In a Win for the Open Internet, AT&T Stops Zero-Rating its Own Video

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AT&T Halts Free Data Services After Net Neutrality Ruling

Date published:
March 17, 2021
Bloomberg
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Supporters of the California law argue that AT&T offered the data allowance exemptions to steer customers to video services it owns.

“Since many people are concerned about going over their data caps, this program gives AT&T’s video services an advantage over competing online video services,” Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School, said in a statement.

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