T-Mobile made Monday announced that the service Datavrije Music’ by default, is added to Set Together & Set up For subscriptions with a bundle of 6GB or more. Subscribers do not have to pay.
With the new service are looking for T-Mobile again the boundaries of net neutrality. Providers should keep all data traffic equal treatment, and according to the ACM is ‘positive discrimination’, by some forms of data traffic to separate data limits, not allowed.
Therefore, says a spokesman of the regulator that the offer of T-Mobile will be investigated.
Mood
The results of the study will probably depend on a vote in the senate.
The senate vote Tuesday on the Dutch implementation of European netneutraliteitsregels. The government wants to make that positive price discrimination therein unauthorised remains, but if the First Room the kabinetsplan rejects would introduce more rules take effect.
PVV-senator René Dercksen filed a motion in which the cabinet is correct as a call to the European rules to follow, because, according to him, it is untenable that the Netherlands has a private path to follow. Also there is Tuesday voted.
Services
Customers with Datavrije Music outside of their bundle to the music services Spotify, Deezer, Hits, EN, Tidal and Napster to listen to. With The Netherlands.fm to internet radio to be listened to.
The telecom provider says that Datavrije Music is a platform for other companies to participate. There would at this moment be speaking with, among other Apple Music.
Secretary
The make available certain services without MB’s bundle to be consumed is also known as ‘zero-rating’. That was under the Dutch netneutraliteitswet prohibited, but that has been replaced by European rules.
Minister Kamp (Economic Affairs) said earlier that the ban on zero-rating under the European rules to maintain. According to the minister, there is sufficient space for an individual EU member state to make this choice.
“There is a proposal on the table that this may prohibit”, says marketing director Tisha of Lambs from T-Mobile. “At the same time satisfies this service to the European law and regulations, which in August was adopted.”
“This would allow for European citizens, but for the Dutch it is not. We think that’s weird. We are going to make because we believe that this should happen.”
According Of Lambs will be the new service to the lives of customers easier, because they no longer have to worry about how much data they consume, with music services. “At the time you need, for example, often music download on the go listening. That is will no longer the case”.
Not happy
David Korteweg of Bits of Freedom says he is not happy with the changes. “This is something where we are actually very afraid.”
According to him, can zero-rating is negative for smaller or foreign streaming services, which are not in the offer of T-Mobile are included. They would be in a benardere competitiveness. T-Mobile stresses the fact that all the streaming services from within and abroad can participate in the program.
Korteweg ask, however, how the selection looks like, and how foreign services need to know that the streamingprogramma of T-Mobile exists. “We have a number of points where we’re questioning.”
The ACM tapped T-Mobile earlier at the fingers because the provider is in a plan with unlimited mobile internet wanted to distinguish different types of traffic. That plan was due to the netneutraliteitswet reversed.
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