would this violate net neutrality?

[Astronautical]

so I got this free sim from Vodafone which is being advertised through UCAS (University and College Admissions Service). I have never looked into sim contracts as i don't use my phone enough to warrant anything other than pay as you go. But this sparked me as being against net neutrality laws, albeit I don't know if there a different set of rules in the UK, or i could be missing a big point in the rules.

 

 

So what is your Opinion?
would you consider this a violation of net neutrality or not? 

[MorganO]

5 minutes ago, Astronautical said:

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theres no such thing in the uk

and no

its just pay them that and those applications dont count towards your data cap

[ItsMitch]

no, doesn't violate it because we don't have NN, if you have a issue with how the advertisement is being shown or an actual problem with the product at hand, go to Vodafone to file a complaint. (even though vodafone a bunch of of tossers) 

[Terryv]

26 minutes ago, MorganO said:

No

its just pay them that and those applications dont count towards your data cap

It does violate NN actually (assuming the UK would be net neutral, but they aren't so it's not illegal)

 

Net neutrality means that all data is to be treated the same regardless of content.

 

No fast lanes

No preferred content

No exceptions to data caps

Etc.

[LogicalDrm]

Is this for times services are used while in UK or while abroad? First line says "100 minutes for use in our international zones" aka roaming. I would need to see actual ToS, but that sounds like plan includes 100 minutes of streamed media from detected sources after which they are blocked unless you pay. If its under roaming areas, then its not violating anything. If its same for domestic use and your plan was advertised as unlimited use, then its issue.

[Astronautical]

22 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Is this for times services are used while in UK or while abroad? First line says "100 minutes for use in our international zones" aka roaming. I would need to see actual ToS, but that sounds like plan includes 100 minutes of streamed media from detected sources after which they are blocked unless you pay. If its under roaming areas, then its not violating anything. If its same for domestic use and your plan was advertised as unlimited use, then its issue.

that line is for a separate add-on for going abroad. the video and music passes are the parts that seemed bad. along with these add-ons, the main contract talked about "unlimited social" data which unless they can update the list of social media sources to include every new site then that would be very bad IMO and would further enforce facebook, twitter etc dependancy.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, Astronautical said:

that line is for a separate add-on for going abroad. the video and music passes are the parts that seemed bad. along with these add-ons, the main contract talked about "unlimited social" data which unless they can update the list of social media sources to include every new site then that would be very bad IMO and would further enforce facebook, twitter etc dependancy.

Ok, well that seems bad. I'd probably look for another provider if thats option. Good thing we don't (yet) have those kind of deals. Worst of ours I've read about is one that offers 4gb of data for €6/mo. Really nice for occasional non-video streaming use. Except they calculate data used different than what device's own data counters do. So they can force €11 extra fee for unlimited data use.

[Mooshi]

Paying for a service, what a crazy concept.

[2FA]

If by Net Neutrality you mean the rules that the FCC had implemented and then recently revoked, then no this does not violate it in a legal sense. This appears to be a zero rating plan which the FCC never banned but did say it could violate the spirit of Net Neutrality.

[Mira Yurizaki]

45 minutes ago, Pangea2017 said:

isn't this the opposite of the net neutrality definition? 

in a nutshell: all data is equal

No, it means something like an ISP is not allowed to deliberately throttle or block services of its competitors so it can shove its own down your throat.

 

Whatever services may still count towards your data cap, because you know, running out of data is something they'd like too.