It seems that the discussion about
Net Neutrality finally made it into Austria's IT mainstream:
#1,
#2 (both German).
I think I do not have to make clear, why I can't take people serious, who even consider putting this topic up for discussion (like clueless Rudi Fischer). This has already been argued by a lot of other brillant people.
The funny thing is, that at least one Austrian Telco has different pricing models for different types of content over the same connection without anyone giving a shit about it for years:
One (this is the only one I know it of, but I guess it's similar with the others).
Customers of One (One Data that is) pay EUR 1,50 per MB using One's standard GPRS accesspoint. But just as long as they don't access any WAP content, which is blocked for no obvious reason on this accesspoint. For WAP you have to use One's special GPRS for WAP accesspoint, which charges you 15 Cent per 10 kb. Guess why they give you the Rates in MB here and in kb there... the latter adds up to EUR 15,36 per MB!
I don't know how the blocking is done, maybe by checking a document's contentType Header, but this is one of the most outrageous attempts to take customers for stupid ever made by an Austrian Telco.
One, you suck.