First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 22 August 2009
Major Dutch cable provider UPC has introduced a new network management system which, from noon to midnight, for certain services and providers, caps users' bandwidth at 1/3rd of their nominal bandwidth.
All protocols but HTTP are capped to 1/3 speed, and within the HTTP realm some Web sites and services that use lots of upstream bandwidth are capped as well.
To clear up some things: UPC is from Austria and a subsidiary of Liberty Global, located in Colorado. Perhaps this explain a bit how capping came to Europe. Anyway, this is another example how customers have to pay for the advertising lies of the companies. To make you sign up, they promise you flatrates and high speeds. Now if you use it, they come up with some excuse and cap.