Germany Blocks its Largest Telecom Company From Violating Net Neutrality

Germany Blocks its Largest Telecom Company From Violating Net Neutrality

6 years ago
Anonymous $1bh8zaeyQS

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3nv8p/germany-t-mobile-net-neutrality-violation

A version of this article originally appeared on Motherboard Germany.

One day after the lost net neutrality battle in the United States, officials in Germany arrived at an important decision. Last Friday, the Bundesnetzagentur, or Federal Network Agency, forbade the company Deutsche Telekom from throttling the streaming speeds of videos as part of its additional StreamOn service. The highest German regulatory officials responsible for issues relating to the internet ordered Telekom to restructure StreamOn accordingly—and to keep all data streaming fair and equal. Telekom criticized the decision as “very puzzling.”