[Chapter-delegates] Enforcing access "speed" on ISPs

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How the provider know what speed advertise? Use the same procedure and definitions... That easy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info>
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Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 23:45:20 
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Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Enforcing access "speed" on ISPs

Hello,

Polish Ministry of Infrastructure (which is sometimes dealing
with telecommunications, independently of the telecom operator body)
wants to implement some kind of tougher enforcement of 
the connection parameters of the Internet connection offered
by the ISP.

They plan to introduce a rule that the "minimal connection speed
should not be lower than 90% of the contractual or advertized
connection speed".

This poses numerous problems, including things like, definition
of "connection speed", from where to where it is measured,
ignoring isses like latency or etc.

On the other hand there is a general opinion that mobile
operators usually overstate capabilities of their
networks (HSDPA access "up to 7.2Mbit/s" and so on).

There was one opinion expressed, that "similar scheme
works in Finland".

Does anyone know any attempts to regulate access speeds
this way in Finland or somewhere else, what kind of metrics
do they build on, and how does this look in practice?

//Marcin
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