In the absence of net neutrality, wireless carriers are slowing customers’ speeds.
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Northeastern University ran 650,000 tests within the U.S. from 2018 to 2019 to see if wireless carriers were slowing down streaming services.
AT&T, according to the report, throttled Netflix 70% of the time and YouTube 74% of the time, but didn’t slow Amazon Prime video at all. Meanwhile, researchers discovered T-Mobile throttled Prime video 51% of the time, but didn’t bother with Skype and only occasionally slowed down Vimeo. The study ran between January 2018 and January 2019, before and after the repeal of net neutrality regulations. Wireless carriers usually claim that heavy online video usage can lead to slower speeds, but the research seems to show that the throttling happened consistently, regardless of peak user times.
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, along with Amazon, Verizon, the National Science Foundation and French telecom ARCEP, contributed funding to this study and others by David Choffnes, an associate professor at Northeastern. "[Wireless carriers] are doing it all the time, 24/7, and it’s not based on networks being overloaded," said Choffnes.
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