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Court blocks Internet speed cap planned by ISP

article published on 30 October, 2013

An Internet Service Provider has been blocked from enforcing speed caps on customers who exceed a monthly data limit. Deutsche Telekom has been told by a German court that its plans to limit its customers' data speeds after they reached a monthly limit would put them at an "unreasonable disadvantage." Initially, the provider had hoped to enforce a 384kbps download speed limit on fixed-line ... [ read the full article ]

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pmshah
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_ 		1. November 2013 @ 11:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think the court is making a blunder in this case. The subscribers knew what they were signing up for. So how can enforcing the speed limit be illegal. Here in India we have 2 kinds of services in "fixed billing". This provides you a guaranteed speed for certain amount of data download after which it drops down to 256 or 512 kbps depending on the package. In the other case you pay a certain amount for certain speed and certain amount of data transfer. You get disconnected when either is exhausted. If a subscriber has knowingly signed up for this kind of service how can the court intervene?
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However, some Deutsche Telekom customers in areas covered by fiber have services up to 200Mbbps, meaning the provider would be giving them only 1 percent of what they are paying for.

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