T-Mobile Video Plan Could Test FCC’s New Net Neutrality Rules

A new plan from T-Mobile to allow unlimited streaming of some video services may become the first test of the federal government’s rules to prevent favoritism on the Internet.

Supporters of network neutrality rules, which are meant to prevent one content provider getting preferential treatment over another, quickly warned that the plan could set a dangerous precedent. They urged the Federal Communications Commission, which passed the rules this year after acrimonious debate, to consider taking up the issue. The T-Mobile plan may offer the first real look at how the F.C.C. plans to enforce the new rules. “The open Internet order indicated that the commission would take a case-by-case approach to such plans,” an FCC spokeswoman said.