Telekom withdraw DSL throttling does not work - WinFuture

For the German Telekom, there is no scenario that ultimately could be expected due to public pressure from their plans to shut down the users with broadband connections to high traffic.”For us, the issue is too important for us to be able to back-pedal,” said Niek Jan van Damme, head of telecom business in Germany, in an interview with the daily newspaper Die Welt. The next three years that will still take up the technical means for the locks are integrated into the network of the company, but they wanted to use them to analyze the situation closely.

Just announced limits on monthly traffic in the DSL contracts, van Damme, however relativized again. “We live in a very dynamic industry. Anyone who assumed today that the current terms and conditions apply to five years for all broadband customers, the telecommunications industry knows bad,” he said.

Basically, the ceilings are however needed to finance network expansion, can the manager repeated his previous statements of the Group. At the same time, he pointed out that it just was only about three percent of the customers who come to these limits today. From today’s perspective, this would mean that Deutsche Telekom wants to have financed the questions of her in the room billion investment for the development of infrastructure for a good part of a fraction of their customers. But it is probably not realistic that some users spend a five-figure sum to continue to get high data quotas.

However, the telecom management should be clear that the traffic trend is to that in three years already significantly greater number of customers will encounter the volume limits – for the digital distribution of content and the range of cloud services is increasing rapidly. Ultimately, the goal of telecom here is to use the broadband locks as a means to participate in the profits of other providers.

According to Van Damme stated that it was, for example, willing to work with other video providers services negotiations on its integration with the lead Entertain IPTV package which does not fall into the calculation of the volume. For an appropriate financial contribution, of course.