Telekom Update
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A handful of links:
Two clips from Bits und so #327.
youtu.be/QPs2RN65fiY youtu.be/qYsG2iJbUpw
A very, very good piece (audio and text): Fast Internet Slowed Down from Deutschlandfunk(via Tim)
Telekom isn’t merely limiting the amount of data; it is effectively shutting off the connection.
The first thing is that this creates a breach in the dam: for the first time, someone is trying to introduce a two-tier internet.
Telekom: Flat-rate caps for all customers, managed services for all providers:
The monthly data caps Telekom plans for fixed-line flat rates will affect all DSL customers by 2018 at the latest. … So far, the new rules were only known to apply to contracts signed by new customers from May 2 onward.
Such next-generation networks are far removed from an internet best-effort network, where all data is transported in the best possible way regardless of its source—and the argument that Entertain is a special service unrelated to the internet would no longer hold.
On Saturday, I’ll be on DRadio Wissen from 11 a.m. to noon to discuss the issue with Daniel Fiene, Christoph Krachten, and Telekom’s Philipp Blank.