OFCOM to investigate Three UK and Vodafone

ryan121

This is a completely pointless investigation. Do ofcom have nothing better to do?

Three offer unlimited plans so of course they have to restrict traffic or people would abuse the network and slow it down for everyone else. It's all pretty obvious why they do what they do.

d123

ryan121 wrote: »

This is a completely pointless investigation. Do ofcom have nothing better to do?

Um, you do realise that this is basically what OFCOM exists for? Your question is a bit like asking why the police are enforcing the law, don't that have anything better to do?

ryan121 wrote: »

Three offer unlimited plans so of course they have to restrict traffic or people would abuse the network and slow it down for everyone else. It's all pretty obvious why they do what they do.

The problem isn't throttling per se, and that's not why they are being investigated, the problem is that they are selectively throttling some services and not others (the basis of net neutrality).

This is why Three are being investigated:

Restricting tethering, the practice of using one device to connect another one to the internet - on certain plans offered by Three;

Imposing restrictions on the devices in which a SIM can be used e.g. where a SIM purchased for a mobile phone cannot be used in a tablet; and

Traffic management practices such as throttling or intentionally slowing down particular categories of traffic (e.g. video traffic, Peer-to-Peer and Virtual Private Network traffic), including where traffic management is applied when customers are roaming.