An article from the online edition of the newspaper Capital written today sparks controversial discussions about Orange and to the clause provided in the contracts for the provision of mobile internet that stipulates that the operator reserves the right to restrict the access of certain users to the internet service in case of its abusive use. The newspaper article Capital it refers strictly to the iPhone as it were iPhone it is the only phone that can make high-speed traffic through the 3G network. The journalist from Capital designates the use IPhone as a PC modem or using services VOIP for the Skype or Whatsapp for example, or the transfer of torrent files as the main reason for suspending Internet access. The article continues with a statement from him Dorian Odiatiu, marketing director at Orange Romania which explains that this type of traffic in extreme cases can lead to the congestion of a network and so almost suffocated sometimes by the traffic made by the rest of the mobile terminals with 3G capabilities, a fact which, in extreme situations, could lead to the restriction of Internet access, but only of users of iPhone? I think not! First of all, each user's bandwidth is dynamically allocated depending on how much the network is in demand, secondly, traffic on mobile terminals (no matter what they are) is limited to 3.6 mbps, thirdly Orange offers a wide range of phones capable of doing the same things as the iPhone, so why only owners of iPhone would they be disconnected? Why not those with HTC, Toshiba, Samsung? To be honest, I have no idea, maybe the boy from Capital.
The contractual clause that provides for the restriction of Internet access in cases where your actions could endanger the integrity of the network exists in any contract for the provision of Internet services. RDS, UPC, Clicknet, Vodafone, they all have such contractual clauses that at least seem normal to me because the service provider has to defend its network considering that there are probably hundreds of thousands/millions of people using this service. The article talks about the fact that Orange it can control to check if abuses are being made, very correctly, it has the right to check if people are downloading from torrents stupidly and can restrict the access of those who do this because it is illegal to download from torrents. It is also true as in USA there were discussions related to AT&T and the fact that their 3G network does not cope with the traffic made by users of iPhone but I haven't heard any scandals about disconnections, only network failures, he prefers to let it all die for everyone than to disconnect a few hundreds of thousands abusively.
In the end, I'm not a fan Orange but this article seems to me to be aimed at destroying Orange's image because those clauses apply to any mobile internet contract for any phone in the offer Orange, not just at iPhone.
