- Golem: The myth of expensive traffic A handful of figures that expose Telekom’s dishonest argument.
- How much of the internet is left for a family of four on a throttled 75 GB DSL plan? 0.4 apps per person per day. Remember the Smurf berries.
- ARD and ZDF call for net neutrality Even public broadcasters have caught on. After all, the internet is becoming the main way people will receive their programmes. But don’t worry: the future hasn’t reached every…
- The obligatory reminder to sign the petition. Economic policy – require internet providers to uphold net neutrality It takes two minutes, costs nothing, and at least we might get another amusing statement from Kai…
- Marcus Engert at radioszene As a provider of high-quality radio and audio online, we have no doubt that the internet is the medium of tomorrow for every kind of media. If Telekom turns these plans into reality in 2016,…
- Heise: Telekom puts wireless plans for new developments on hold We will not pursue these plans for the time being. Instead, we will try to dispel through dialogue with everyone involved the concerns that, in our view,…
- youtu.be/8xtLrerULOQ The workshop sample project – a Google-free RSS reader – should now be free of the nastiest bugs and also runs on iOS 5 . Thanks for all the helpful reports!
- youtu.be/GBK8T2xuuHw It’s amusing that Austria presents 1999 as a distant, dusty past, while Germany is heading straight for conditions like 1999.
- Heise , dpa, and Nordsee-Zeitung add some detail: … Telekom plans a pilot project to determine whether fixed-line connections can be completely replaced by wireless access in some areas … The requirement (…) is that…
- No more landline expansion in rural areas Saarbrücker Zeitung: … in new developments or rural areas … the company no longer wants to install landlines where they aren’t profitable. … Telekom CEO René Obermann’s company…
- AWS Elastic Transcoder Now Supports HLS We currently pretty much max out one VM to simultaneously transcode four HLS streams. This might be something to look into. Not sure if it will take HLS segments or a pipe as…
- Pirate Party leader calls for telecommunications networks to be nationalized Two fragments of sentences from Schlömer in WirtschaftsWoche. You can certainly check that claim. But look at yesterday’s debate in the…
- Obermann at the annual general meeting : “The alternative would be for the network to get slower for everyone or more expensive for everyone”… Instead, Telekom follows the principle: “Faster for everyone, more expensive…
- This one goes in the scrapbook: #Netzneutralität is very important to the Federal Government. The Federal Cartel Office and Network Agency are reviewing developments; further action is possible. — Steffen Seibert…
- After my last number port (my own fault) went spectacularly wrong, I looked up how the process is supposed to work now . A change introduced a few months ago: you can ask your current provider in advance to release your…
- “CDU Media Night” – Angela Merkel: Internet back and forth, I still believe that the ability to read should be preserved. And not reduced to abbreviations in all sorts of electronic messages. I think it helps to have…
- 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…