Verizon (Re)Compresses JPGs ⇥

I did not know this until Louie Mantia pointed it out on Twitter. The weird thing is that this isn’t mentioned anywhere (aside from the very fine print of a Verizon contract, I presume). This isn’t mentioned on Apple’s site, nor Verizon’s site. It took a little bit of digging, but I found this nugget on Boy Genius Report:

We are implementing optimization and transcoding technologies in our network to transmit data files in a more efficient manner to allow available network capacity to benefit the greatest number of users.

This apparently began in February.