- There's always a last call somewhere.
- Obermann wants Google to pay up Manager Magazin, 2010. Telekom likes to leave this one out when making its case for throttling, but it’s the backstory to the whole affair. It also includes more quotes for the scrapbook:…
- SPON: How Telekom is enforcing a two-tier internet Ole Reißmann isn’t falling for the same nonsense as WamS. This shorter version cuts the article down to a comfortable length, so you can get your relatives’ minds past…
- After a long struggle, Sipgate is discontinuing Sipgate One, its virtual mobile number service similar to Google Voice. The Federal Post Office and the Post Ministry never played along. Google seems to have watched the…
- youtu.be/zOJw_pWKCT0 Details and shop: http://bit.ly/17hZIK2 Disclosure: Smartturtle is clearly a sponsor of Bits und so, but this recommendation is genuinely independent of that.
- Word problem. Put your pencils down. Three percent of customers—the power users—will be affected by the “throttle”.The average customer currently “uses” 15–20 GB a month.By 2016, internet traffic will quadruple. I drew…
- Telekom’s head in Germany in Die Welt : By 2018, we want to switch completely to IP-based services … Just as nobody will miss the old analog C-network when it was replaced by the digital D-network, nobody will miss the…
- @ timohetzel So the Telekom guy asked customers to vote by cancelling, because that’s the only metric he understands. — wacholderpolka, May 5, 2013 If I wanted to cancel (I do; the contract runs until 2014), what…
- Not bad, Twitter. Not bad.
- So it really is just a price increase? Obermann promises unlimited plans in 2016 , but at higher prices. This post says nothing about “managed services” or net neutrality. Q1 2013 figures Broadband connections ,…
- Telekom’s secret dealings with politicians Wirtschaftswoche on the Federal Network Agency’s central role: The telecommunications market faces a return to the old monopoly days before 1989, when the Federal Post Office…
- Until Apple finally ships the xMac, I needed an interim solution to ingest hours of ProRes HQ video into Final Cut Pro X from a SATA SSD. The Mac Pro has, depending on its model year, one or two spare SATA ports on the…
- By now it should be clear that Telekom’s argument is absurd. But let’s look at it again. From Telekom’s blog post, “New rules for DSL?” : On the one hand, data volumes are growing exponentially. The networks therefore…
- youtu.be/EwfSWyC5iwk I think it needs a T-shirt update .
- youtu.be/X0p0lREq6qE A bit of ISDN nostalgia: my MusicTaxi from the pre-show of Bits und so #328 . Manual (PDF)
- Here’s the recording of today’s lunchtime broadcast. Daniel Fiene and Herr Pähler’s guests are Philipp Blank from Telekom, YouTuber Christoph Krachten, and me. Programme page MP3 / Podcast feed / iTunes link
- 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…
- Enable Google Now in the Google Search app Background location reporting turns on Location history
- VW model overview . Probably the world’s least user-friendly PDF viewer. And VW’s website? The iBeetle maker has a configurator that won’t let you scroll down to the diesel models on an iPad.
- Sounds tempting.