Telecom, close to the p2p: stop software 'bandwidth-eating' 
From the March 1 Most national operator and owner of this new national network will put pen to paper, updating the terms and conditions. As has been done other telecom. What changes and what will change
TELECOM Italy will start to slow down, for its DSL customers, services that consume more bandwidth, such as peer to peer (file sharing):
has announced in recent days . From March 1 will put this new black and white, by updating terms and conditions. This is not the first operator to take this step in Italy. But it is a remarkable thing, given that it is more operator and owner of the Italian network. It therefore appears that the lives of fans peer to peer is likely to become more difficult, soon. Telecom announces that "would limit the connection speed to the Internet, speaking Applications which create a higher-bandwidth (peer to peer, file sharing etc.) ".. The stated reason is" to ensure network integrity and the right by the general user to access services including internet connectivity in time slots in which data traffic is particularly high. "Remember that when circuits are often peer to peer music, movies and pirated software, but not only that, but works and legal content.
On another page, Telecom adds that limiting applications such as peer to peer will serve to "ensure even at peak availability of sufficient bandwidth for the satisfactory operation of other applications" realtime " (Eg web browsing, email, Youtube, etc.) ".. The good news is word that the video streaming, while consuming a lot of bandwidth will not be restricted. We also know that these limitations will affect only the central congested, then locations and specific times. but Telecom did not define the latter, how does know Repubblica.it, nor the precise details and timing of introduction of novelty. From 1 March it reserves the right to apply the restrictions, but would expect still some time before putting them into practice.
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Various DSL operators have long limited the peer to peer, in times of congestion. Define it, on their own sites, and TeleTu Wind, among others. Telecom has decided to do only now likely to face extraordinary cases of traffic congestion on certain telephone exchanges (perhaps those not linked to fiber). As the owner of the network, Telecom has always had less congestion than other operators, in fact.
The basic problem, which shows the user experience is that the limits on peer to peer can sometimes be very penalizing. In point of fact as to render the service unusable as too slow. Telecom, however, specifies that the limits will not affect the efficiency of peer to peer. E This is an important point. Currently in Europe there are no explicit laws in this regard, but will be implemented in the coming months (probably in May) with the new
"Telecoms Package" , that the package of rules decided by the European telecoms. Here is banned for the first time to block any type of service and requires operators to provide users with transparency its traffic management practices. "The problem is that these rules are too broad. There are no specific requirements on how to limit the services and what level of information to offer users," says Mark Pierani, head of institutional relations Altroconsumo. "For this reason-more-Pierani BEUC, the organization dei consumatori europea, la settimana scorsa ha chiesto alla Commissione europea di pubblicare una raccomandazione con regole più precise su questo tema, che per gli esperti va sotto il nome di neutralità della rete".
E su rete fissa va in fondo sempre meglio che su rete mobile, dove gli operatori arrivano ormai a decidere tariffe diverse a seconda del tipo di applicazione Internet utilizzata dall'utente e
a penalizzare il VoIP . Si noti che anche gli operatori mobili, per prudenza nei confronti dei regolatori, hanno scelto di non bloccare specifiche applicazioni sulla propria rete. Alcuni di loro però (Tim, Vodafone, Wind) limitano a fare pagare a parte, rispetto al canone a forfait, quelle sgradite (peer to peer and VoIP). So the user can still have access to all sites and applications, but in fact it is discouraged to use VoIP because it would pay a lot.
E 'a form of discrimination in charges, in fact. According to the advocates of net neutrality, this discrimination also threatens innovation. It 's like an ADSL operator, offering TV, did pay part of YouTube's normal monthly fee. And maybe he did not pay separately only to offer ADSL subscribers more expensive. Once approved in principle that discrimination is lawful tariff, you can open various scenarios and that's what scares the proponents of neutrality. Type: the operator makes a x accordo con l'editore y e quindi include nel forfait dell'Adsl solo il traffico fatto su certi tipi di giornali online e non su altri. Non blocca l'accesso ai giornali di altri editori (ci mancherebbe), ma comunque ne scoraggia la lettura.
Al momento sono pratiche legittime, tuttavia. La situazione potrebbe cambiare solo se la nostra Autorità garante delle comunicazioni decidesse che anche questa è una pratica proibita. Prima o poi si pronuncerà a proposito, al termine di un'indagine che sta conducendo sul tema della neutralità della rete ma che è ancora in una fase preliminare.
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