Netflix admitted that it’s been throttling mobile users for years

Last week, T-Mobile CEO John Legere accused AT&T and Verizon of throttling Netflix streams, but as it turns out, it was Netflix itself that was throttling the streams, and it’s been doing so for years. The company admitted as much to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, claiming that it was only doing so in order to make sure the mobile users weren’t exceeding their data caps, which it believed would discourage them from using Netflix on their smartphones. It wasn’t just those two carriers either, Netflix admitted that it’s been throttling streams through most wireless carriers across the globe for more than five years.