NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] when the network gets too intelligent
Maybe this will interest you: Funambol is a silicon valley starup that develops a framework to help sync mobile devices > In the last few days, we started getting reports that syncs on Tmobile > stopped working. From people that bought a data plan. Same phone > with an at&t SIM card worked. Put a Tmobile SIM card in and it would > not work (actually, it was worst, sync with native SyncML clients were > giving false positives...). > > After some analysis, we found the issue. All of a sudden, Tmobile is > chopping off the word jsessionid from the URLs. That is what native > SyncML clients use to keep track of the session. If you chop it off, the > sync can't work. > We spent three hours on the phone with Tmobile just to hear that > "they do not support third party application" The CEO of Funabol says he'd rather think that they do because of a mistake. (so he says the network is "too dumb") This kind of behaviour in Europe is illegal; assigning different priorities to commnications is not illegal; mangling or inhibiting communication (as it appears being this case), it is. isn't it illegal in the US as well ? Best, s. |