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12/01/2012 - NET NEUTRALITY - 3 DAYS TO BOOST REPORTING ON RESPECTMYNET.eu

Thanks to the RespectMyNet.eu platform and thanks to the participation of citizens from all over Europe in unveiling these harmful practices, EU regulators can no longer ignore the widespread access restrictions which undermine freedom of communication, privacy, as well as competition and innovation online. By further contributing to RespectMyNet, citizens can help increase pressure on the Commission to legislate on Net neutrality.

Below is a small guide on how to help RespectMyNet with reporting cases. As you'll see, some Member States are well represented (France, Belgium and Germany), and but others lack confirmations (Italy, the UK, Austria  or Sweden and Eastern Europe).

If you want to help reporting or confirming cases, or if you can relay the info to the right people, it would be most helpful. That way we can pressure the Commission to legislate once and for all on Net neutrality.

For some background, see: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/respectmynet-internet-restrictions-on-the-table-of-eu-regulators

How to help Respect My Net
You can:

if you need any help contact nnmon[a]laquadrature.net
 * Identify the more realistic cases for your country (for instance cases you've heard about before, plausible cases with several confirmations,  etc.)
 * Call for your community to analyze theses cases and confirm them. Comment the  case with ways to diagnose and confirm the case. Call widely for  confirmation.
 * Also call for mobilization to report new cases (longer term)
 * Ask technical people to validate the case is correct by accurately testing it, providing test results, etc.

Most promising cases
The following cases are some of the most promising ones for each country. But we can do better! Internet access restrictions are most probably even more widespread.

Austria

 * YESSS!: Jabber / XMPP connexion is blocked. http://respectmynet.eu/view/220
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/AT

Belgium

 * Unlimited access to Twitter, Facebook and Netlog, other sites count towards  bandwidth limit : artificial incentive to use these sites. http://respectmynet.eu/view/201
 * Belgacom: all outgoing email is forced to go through the operator's servers (SMTP). http://respectmynet.eu/view/184
 * Mobile Vikings (MVNO): The Pirate Bay is blocked. http://respectmynet.eu/view/200
 * EDPNet: outgoing email forced to go through operator's servers, which add limits. http://respectmynet.eu/view/198
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/BE

France

 * SFR (mobile) evidence of deep packet inspection, blocking of browsers sending a non-mobile user-agent. http://respectmynet.eu/view/43
 * SFR (mobile): access to XMPP / Jabber blockedhttp://respectmynet.eu/view/207
 * Free (fixe) access to Youtube is slowed down. http://respectmynet.eu/view/205
 * Orange (mobile): FTP and SSH traffic are charged per Mb for a “unlimited” “internet” access plan. http://respectmynet.eu/view/121
 * Orange (fixe): streaming websites are artificially slowed down. http://respectmynet.eu/view/98
 * Orange (mobile): redirection when requesting porn websites, redirect to sites  for which Orange manages payment services (sounds extreme, would like to  see this confirmed). http://respectmynet.eu/view/86
 * Bouygues (mobile): all outgoing mail forced to go through operator's SMTP servers: Forfait Evasio : http://respectmynet.eu/view/185 / Forfait Neo 3 : http://respectmynet.eu/view/157
 * Bouygues (mobile): all UDP trafic blocked (!). Neo 3 : http://respectmynet.eu/view/156 / autres contrats : http://respectmynet.eu/view/197
 * OutreMer télécom (fixe) online video games cannot connect and play onlie between 9 am and midnight, after which they magically work. http://respectmynet.eu/view/162
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/FR

Germany

 * T-Mobile: tethering is made impossible en iPhone, for no technical reason. http://respectmynet.eu/view/169
 * T-Mobile: contractual restriction, VoIP is forbidden. http://respectmynet.eu/view/169
 * Telekom: Youtube is slowed down: http://respectmynet.eu/view/196
 * T-Mobile Web'n'Walk Handyflat: no push services on Android. http://respectmynet.eu/view/164
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/DE

Italy

 * Wind absolute: Youtube badly throttled. http://respectmynet.eu/view/152
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/IT

Hungary

 * Telenor Internet Praktikum: filesharing (peer-to-peer?) is throttled to 32 kbps, up and down. http://respectmynet.eu/view/2
 * T-Home operates its IPTV on ports normally used by VoIP services. http://respectmynet.eu/view/1
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/HU

Netherlands

 * T-Mobile: tethering blocked. http://respectmynet.eu/view/113
 * Hi Hi 2010 Online 20 Internet Extra: Youtube and online video sites blocked over 3G connexion. http://respectmynet.eu/view/107
 * Zoigo: impossible to run your own outgoing mailserver (SMTP port 25 is blocked). http://respectmynet.eu/view/132
 * Hi Prepay: anything but webbrowsing (port 80) is blocked, killing most Internet applications (VoIP, email, instant messaging, etc.). http://respectmynet.eu/view/138
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/NL

Poland

 * Telekomunikacja Polska Two years contract 16000 Kbits: download speeds throttled of filesonic.com. http://respectmynet.eu/view/179
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/PL

Portugal

 * Vodafone Plano Best net Max and Best net Top: flat rate is in fact capped, drops to dial-up speed after 15 Gb. http://respectmynet.eu/view/178
 * Vodafone: contractual restriction on VoIP, with clear intention to sell premium contracts. http://respectmynet.eu/view/24
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/PT

Romania

 * Vodafone: disruption of VoIP services. http://respectmynet.eu/view/26
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/RO

Spain

 * Yoigo: Skype is blocked. http://respectmynet.eu/view/172
 * Orange: VoIP contractually forbidden. http://respectmynet.eu/view/27
 * Vodafone: peer-to-peer contractually forbidden, connexion speed penalties if used. http://respectmynet.eu/view/29
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/ES

Sweden

 * Telenor: VoIP contractually forbidden. http://respectmynet.eu/view/32
 * Telia Sonera: VoIP contractually forbidden. http://respectmynet.eu/view/31
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/SE

UK

 * PlusNet considers Spotify as peer-to-peer and throttles untils it's unusable. http://respectmynet.eu/view/37
 * all cases: http://respectmynet.eu/list/UK