Netflix will soon provide you with the option of selecting the video resolution when streaming HD video for your ISP.

A couple of days back when John Legere’s T-Mobile’s CEO, announced the fact that T-Mobile would expand the coverage of YouTube on the company’s Binge On program, he mentioned a rather intriguing fact that T-Mobile’s although the company’s Netflix streams were at 480p were “mobile optimized” they were higher than what you would get when streaming content from Verizon or AT&T.

Tests have revealed that Legere is certainly right. Netflix streams at 360p on Verizon and AT&T networks. However executives from companies have said that the resolution on streaming content is not reduced on their respective networks.

As per an article from the Wall Street Journal, the real culprit seems to be Netflix.

7/ @TMobile has been listening to customers and thanks to a little partnership, @YouTube is now a #BingeOnpartner!https://t.co/VQVZoM86Jh

— John Legere (@JohnLegere) March 17, 2016

In what could have been an issue regarding net neutrality that needs to be ironed out, can broadband providers reduce the video quality of streaming companies who are its competitors? In this case however, Netflix itself chose to limit its own video quality on both At&T and Verizon networks.

Netflix has delved into the issue and has explained through a blog post too WSJ that it caps all video streaming at 600 kbps so as to optimize data usage for its customers. For some reason however, T-Mobile and Sprint were exempt from this capping procedure since historically the two companies have “more consumer friendly policies.”

Netflix’s reasoning makes sense since as you can image viewing HD video on your mobile will send your mobile data bill through the roof. Now that Netflix has set the record straight, the whole thing seems to make sense.

Furthermore, as per Netflix, most of its users have not perceived any difference between 480p and 360p videos. In fact they are happy since its optimizations have benefitted them on their data plan.

Netflix has now disclosed that it will soon announce the introduction of a “data saver” feature on its mobile apps which will allow its clients to select the bandwidth they want over their cellular networks. So in case you want to burn a few gigabytes while watching Star Wars The Force Awakens you have the option to do so.