Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.tal.de!news.wtal.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy? Date: 24 Jul 2015 18:20:15 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <1441f$55abc986$43da7656$24535@nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com> <200720151647352171%YourName@YourISP.com> <99ca2$55ae64be$43da7656$23251@nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com> <65feb$55afd62c$adb2d18a$4488@nntpswitch.blueworldhosting.com> X-Trace: individual.net 8c2+sCp7MvToYU9F3jZrDAvGtV49TyjNu3U1PSWBSxrqzy+Ftj X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:YeSEAbQYOm8Ouit6vZmpxsniyEE= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.2-WOW64/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 150723-1, 07/23/2015), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: aioe.org misc.phone.mobile.iphone:76180 comp.mobile.android:21269 Michael Eyd wrote: > Am 23.07.2015 um 20:22 schrieb madodel ptd News: > > > My daughter has just told me that she read that T-Mobile and Vodaphone > > block VOIP services and alternate texting apps like Lime, but O2/E-Plus > > doesn't. Do you know if that is true? > > It is true in the sense that many providers here in Germany actually > have a paragraph stating that VOIP is not supported. However, as of now > I have not really heard that they actually enforce this - which in turn > shows that this is not really used all that much as of now. Might > change, though... Some Dutch providers tried tricks like this, but were put in their place, because such restrictions/blocking are violating the net-neutrality principle. AFAIK, since then it has become illegal in many (most?) EU countries and maybe 'even' in the whole EU. N.B. Of course that does not mean that a provider can not limit the amount of data or throttle the speed. But it can not do so for any specific service. [...]