T-Mobile unshackles Android GooPhone
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In Canada, Bell is using you — you’re 5% of its customer base, apparently — as an excuse to lumber all of its users by throttling their traffic.
And Friday was the day Bell decided to round things off by implementing a ‘bandwidth management’ scheme on 3rd party GPS apps.
Over in the US Comcast is of an identical user-control mindset, its most recent idea including a ‘disconnect user’ option.
On Wednesday, “It’s becoming an epidemic,” we said, going on »»»
Traffic throttling.
It used to be something you’d hear about once in a while and then a little under a year ago, Bell Canada was caught running a major ‘bandwidth management’ scheme against its customers, across the border Comcast, its US equivalent, was doing the same, and Time Warner Cable boss Glenn Britt earnestly hopes it’ll become a universal reality.
The GooPhone has only just been officially turned loose but it, too, will be shackled, according to Engadget.
The plan was to nail users to a one gig limit.
But, “T-Mobile has already relented and removed the 1gb cap,” says kensonic in a Reader’s Write, pointing to a Gizmodo post which states »»»
T-Mobile’s just rolled back on their 1GB usage cap on their 3G plans for upcoming G1 Android customers, instead going to a hold-up-while-we-figure-this-out route.
The statement they give now states that they can reduce throughput for ‘a small fraction’ of users who are using too much data, but exact terms and limits are still being reviewed before they’re finalized.
That didn’t take long, did it? And it’s all down to People2People Power.
Meanwhile, “small fraction of users”?
That’s you.
So be prepared to soon be specifically targeted.
Cheers!
Jon Newton – p2pnet
Los Angeles Times – , September , 2008
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