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Originally posted by intellivision View PostHas there been any statement from Ubuntu about whether their Ubuntu Mobile platform will have a convergence function similar to what was planned for Ubuntu for Android?
This is something that I really want to see any company put out.
See "High end superphone" http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/operators-and-oems
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Originally posted by brosis View PostThis pinky-stinky big-player recently tried to limit DSL flatrate to several GiB per month and start throttling the lines to 386 kilobit... Except own video services.
Now, after public protest of 10K crowd they proposed a throttling to 2 Mbit (from usual 16 or 100).Originally posted by randomizer View PostThis is unusual? I wish I only got shaped to 386kbps. It's 256kbps here, although it used to be 64kbps so I guess things have "improved."
Are people not getting the speeds they pay for? If so, then why would there be public protests because of one crappy ISP?
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Originally posted by curaga View PostIt is in most of the EU. DSL is not throttled, if you bought 20M, you're getting at least X % no matter how much you use. The percentage depends on local laws, here it's around 70% (to account for bad lines etc, but still keep reins on speed avertising).
Speed capping is better than overusage charges though. I remember old plans from a couple of years ago from Telstra that were 250MB for $29.95/month, with $150/GB overusage charges.
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Originally posted by M1kkko View PostWhat does this mean? Please explain.
Are people not getting the speeds they pay for? If so, then why would there be public protests because of one crappy ISP?
For the first x GiB of downloads in the month you get full speed. After that your download speed gets throttled to a very low percentage of the full speed until next month.
The reason for this are basically 2 simple ideas:
1. Provide a more expensive contract with unlimited full speed (-> customer pays more)
2. Offer a way for platforms/websites/content provider to pay the ISP to be excluded from the measured download volume (-> content provider pays the ISP)
Which comes down to the simple idea:
Get more money out of the same service we offer since years
The reason why there's a protest is because the few ISPs we have had the same plan as the Telekom.
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Originally posted by droste View PostIt's volume based:
For the first x GiB of downloads in the month you get full speed. After that your download speed gets throttled to a very low percentage of the full speed until next month.
The reason for this are basically 2 simple ideas:
1. Provide a more expensive contract with unlimited full speed (-> customer pays more)
2. Offer a way for platforms/websites/content provider to pay the ISP to be excluded from the measured download volume (-> content provider pays the ISP)
Which comes down to the simple idea:
Get more money out of the same service we offer since years
The reason why there's a protest is because the few ISPs we have had the same plan as the Telekom.
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Originally posted by TheOne View PostI'm starving for firefox os and ubuntu touch to dominate markets :P Firefox os programming just involves html/css/javascript while ubuntu touch the all mighty C++ instead of bloated java or nasty objective-c syntax
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