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I agree and I’m one of them, but it’s not against the law in US or EU.

• Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  It's highly debated in the EU, some providers have tried it but they spark a lot of debate about it.
  • solarkraft 8y ago
    Yet they're allowed to do so in Germany. It gets on my nerves, but there have even been court decisions to uphold it.
  • nolok 8y ago
    In France it was actually the norm for cellular data, and the hellish nightmare of favoring one own service was even advertised ("with universal mobile, you get unlimited data for universal music service!!!"). We also had service tiering, such as pop/imap being priced differently than http, etc... Free mobile then came in and used the same tactic they used on adsl, single pricing, large amount of data, no differentiation between websites / ports / data types (even including peer to peer) etc... And others had to follow. So we're in a status quo right now, but just like our fixed line Internet, its quality depends on one of the providers not aligning with the others. If they change their mind, get bought or whatever, the game could change quickly.
    • SilasX 8y ago
      >In France it was actually the norm for cellular data, and the hellish nightmare of favoring one own service was even advertised ("with universal mobile, you get unlimited data for universal music service!!!"). Took me a minute to parse, since I didn't realize that universal was the name of a content company, rather than a service plan's name and access to all music. Kind of reminds me of the (also French) company Total, who seems like they were invented to make tabulation charts about the oil industry hard to read.