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> In the EU there are similar offers for "enhanced" access, but its not speeding up/slowing down apps, but giving "free" access, as in not counting to your data cap.

That's also in breach of EU net neutrality laws. A Dutch ISP lost a lawsuit over this for providing free Spotify traffic. I don't remember which one, I think it was T Mobile (now called Odildo or something lol)

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Odildo? Cant be truth in a country where almost all people speak english!

It's actually Odido but everyone I know calls it Odildo :P it was really a stupid name choice

I suspect it's a brand name they tested across multiple languages, etc

Most countries are somewhat familiar with english slang, such as the word dildo.

It's not slang, it's just a word. And the Dutch for dildo is ... dildo (I would have expected shared roots in French or some such, but apparently it's a loanword from English since the 70s).

I must be weird, but I like the name. It's a palindrome and I dig their symmetrical logo.

And of course, it is clever marketing. Even here we are talking about it.

Spanish: jodido

Haha yes that means fucked (as in "you're fucked"). I speak Spanish and I didn't actually think of that.

Kinda funny how neutrality is hurting consumers. I dont think many of us thought about this potential benefit.

It was always going to hurt consumers short-term. I don't know why anyone is surprised.

Maybe it's just because I'm old and remember the clusterfuck when the EU decided one TV company couldn't hold the rights to all the football matches.

(They divvy the rights up in such a way that you can't see a single competition on just one service, let alone just one team's matches.)

It's not hurting consumers. These companies are not coming up with these plans because they're cheaper for the consumers. They're doing it to entrench them into their service and then extract money in other ways.

Do you think that laws that make buying electoral votes illegal (where they exist) should be repealed on the basis that they are harming people who'd prefer to take that cash?

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