[Chapter-delegates] Shutdown of Skype on our Mobile Broadband Internet Access
Alexander Blom
alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl
Tue May 28 13:54:02 PDT 2013
Hello Edwin,
This is our Dutch Net Neutrality clause.
Article 7.4a [Enters into force on 1 January 2013]
1. Providers of public electronic communications networks via which
Internet access services are
delivered and providers of Internet access services shall not hinder or
slow down applications or
services on the Internet, unless and to the extent that the measure in
question with which
applications or services are being hindered or slowed down is necessary:
a. to minimise the effects of congestion, whereby equal types of traffic
must be treated equally;
b. to preserve the integrity and security of the network and service of
the provider in question or
the end-user's terminal;
c. to restrict the transmission to an end-user of unsolicited
communication within the meaning of
Article 11.7(1), provided that the end-user has given its prior consent
for this to be done;
d. to implement a legislative provision or court order; or
e. to comply with an express request by the subscriber to obstruct
services or applications due to
ideological reasons specified by the subscriber if the provider does not
offer the subscriber a
monetary or other advantage for this request and the provider already
offered the option of
complying with such a request prior to 1 June 2011.
2. If an infraction of the integrity or security of the network or the
service or a terminal of an end-user,
as referred to in (b) of the first paragraph, is being caused by traffic
coming from the terminal of an
end-user, the provider, prior to taking the measure which hinders or
slows down the traffic, must
notify the end-user in question, in order to allow the end-user to
terminate the infraction. Where the
required urgency means that this is not possible prior to the measure
being taken, the provider
must give notice of the measure as soon as possible. The first sentence
shall not apply where this
concerns an end-user of a different provider.
3. Providers of Internet access services shall not make their charges
for Internet access services
dependent on the services and applications which are offered or used via
said services.
4. Specific rules with regard to the provisions in paragraphs 1 to 3 may
be provided by way of a
general administrative order. The proposal for a general administrative
order as provided for under
this paragraph shall not be made earlier than four weeks after the draft
has been submitted to both
Houses of the States General.
5. In order to prevent the degradation of service delivery and the
hindering or slowing down of traffic
via public electronic communications networks, minimum requirements
regarding the quality of
service of publicly available electronic communications services may be
imposed by or pursuant to
a general administrative order on providers of public electronic
communications networks.
Please send me a mail if anybody wants the full text of the law.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Alex Blom
ISOC NL
On 5/28/2013 10:29 PM, Edwin A. Opare wrote:
> Is anybody able to share pdf versions of their Network Neutrality
> legislation to assist other countries yet to develop and pass such
> legislation?
>
> Best,
>
> EAO
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Alexander Blom
> <alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl <mailto:alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl>>
> wrote:
>
> In the Netherlands we have the proper legislation in place (net
> neutrality is in the law since the 1st of January this year), but
> in our experience, that still does not mean that every ISP and
> mobile operator will behave, or that net neutrality will be
> enforced by the authorities if they don't. In my opinion what can
> really contribute to protect net neutralty is lots of angry
> subscribers/consumers/internet users.
>
>
> Alex Blom
> ISOC NL
>
>
> On 5/28/2013 9:28 PM, Edwin A. Opare wrote:
>> Grigori,
>>
>> I just don't get it. Why should Google or Skype or anyone else
>> pay extra money for using an already existing infrastructure?
>>
>> I hope Beeline, Tele2 and Megafon are not following the same
>> course as MTC, because it will definitely stifle innovation,
>> cripple competition and user options, and in the long run the
>> next Google or Microsoft or VKonktake will never "start up".
>>
>> This is a huge challenge and it needs to be addressed ASAP!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> EAO
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Grigori Saghyan
>> <gregor at arminco.com <mailto:gregor at arminco.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Eric,
>> some bad news from Russia.
>> Yesterday one of the largest cell operator in Russia - MTC-
>> have sent a
>> proposal to the ministry of communications. The idea of the
>> proposal
>> is to issue a special licenses for Skype and Google for
>> their VoIP
>> services and collect money from these companies for VoIP
>> services.
>> You can translate this information from Russian on
>> http://lenta.ru/news/2013/05/27/skype/
>> As you understand, lot of countries, who have signed well
>> known ITRs,
>> have similar approaches with Russia, and can implement
>> Russian practice.
>>
>> Grigori Saghyan
>> ISOC.AM <http://ISOC.AM>
>>
>>
>> On 27.05.2013 11 <tel:27.05.2013%2011>:44, Eric Akumiah wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > We have been experience a shut down of Skype by some of our
>> Mobile
>> > Broadband operators and I want to know if any chapter has
>> experience
>> > such a thing and what measures were used to address it. We
>> intent
>> > complain to the regulator in the Ministry of Communications
>> here in a
>> > position paper. We will like some input from any chapter
>> who has had
>> > such an experience.
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> > Eric
>> > President,
>> > Ghana Chapter
>> >
>> >
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