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Yeah its illegal to offer plans based on throttling/prioritisation in the EU. > Under these rules, blocking, throttling and discrimination of internet traffic
by rcarr 3y ago
Yeah its illegal to offer plans based on throttling/prioritisation in the EU.
> Under these rules, blocking, throttling and discrimination of internet traffic by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is not allowed in the EU. There are 3 exceptions: compliance with legal obligations; integrity of the network; congestion management in exceptional and temporary situations.
> All traffic has to be treated equally. For example, there can be no prioritisation of traffic in the Internet access service. Equal treatment still allows reasonable day-to-day traffic management according to objectively justified technical requirements, which must be independent of the origin or destination of the traffic and of any commercial considerations.
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-internet https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-inter...
For the time being the UK is still aligned with EU law on this but there's lobbying to make things more like the US:
https://cei.org/blog/how-the-uk-can-reform-can-improve-internet-connectivity-for-consumers/ https://cei.org/blog/how-the-uk-can-reform-can-improve-inter...
- lotsofpulp 3y agoInteresting, but I wonder if this exception would not allow the same: > congestion management in exceptional and temporary situations. I presume the US mobile networks are primarily selling higher priority that applies (since it only needs to be applied) in exceptional and temporary situations.
- rcarr 3y agoI'd say the EU are generally less tolerant of loophole based exploitation of the law than the US (see for example the potential Apple USB-C speed throttling in the news recently). Anyone who tried this kind of thing would get sanctioned pretty quick.