‘One-third telco in the world charge different rate for certain apps

One-third of the providers worldwide charge different rates for different apps and services on smartphones. This is evident from an inventory of netwerkservicebedrijf Allot. In the Netherlands, is that a distinction is prohibited.

Many of those providers charge extra for WhatsApp and Skype, as KPN and Vodafone in the Netherlands were planning. For data communication via Skype, they calculate normal rate, but the providers charge less for other services, such as access to Facebook or content from partners. That writes Allot in a not freely accessible report, based on data from more than 50 global carriers, which together have more than 250 million customers. Allot is a company that providers advise about bandbreedtemanagement and hardware sells to torrentverkeer throttle.

The charge of different rates for different services is forbidden in the Netherlands as the amendment to the telecommunications law is adopted. In this is net neutrality is mandatory for fixed and mobile carriers.

Almost 90 percent of the providers determine prices on the basis of the amount of data that people consume. Approximately half of the providers has a subscription service where customers unlimited data use.

Providers see much more traffic on to Apples downloadwinkel App Store than Android Market. Globally, 84 percent of the network traffic on the gsm and 3g networks of the respective 50 providers to Apples dowloadwinkel; 13 percent goes to Android Market. The streaming video is in regards to amount of network traffic is web browsing backward: 39 percent of the traffic is video streaming, a quarter is used for the browser. YouTube takes in his own 22 percent of mobile data traffic for its account.