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The court's decision in the StreamOn case fell exactly one week ago. At that time, the Cologne Administrative Court declared that the supplement option was illegal and did not harmonize with the European rules on roaming and network neutrality.

Video choking is particularly problematic because it reduces the resolution of the content of moving images and the fact that Telekom would charge StreamOn customers' traffic to the country in a different way than other European countries.

Telekom then filed a lawsuit against an order from the Federal Network Agency, which already banned part of the StreamOn supplemental option in December 2017 after a "thorough review".

The telecom announced after the verdict pronounced on the blog of the house:

The decision of the Cologne Administrative Court has no immediate effect on our StreamOn offer. In the interest of our customers, we will continue to exhaust all legal options so StreamOn can continue to be offered. Hiring StreamOn would be a big drawback for our more than 1.7 million customers and more than 350 content partners. […] We continue to believe that our offer does not violate EU law. […] Another criticism concerns bandwidths. We consider that the transmission in DVD quality for presentation on mobile devices is absolutely sufficient. This is evidenced by the high booking rates of our customers and the great interest of our partners.

Here, the counters of the Federal Network Agency. As stated in a DPA message, among other things that SPIEGEL is present, the authority wants to enforce a fine of an amount of 200,000 euros, if the network operator does not revise its Zubuchoption.

The video limitation and the separate foreign calculation must be punished with a fine of 100,000 euros each.

[…] With StreamOn, data consumption is not counted in the monthly volume, for example when streaming videos on Netflix or in a media library. However, the telecom has strangled in some tariffs the transmission rate, and we can see the film en route in a resolution (SD) lower than at home in the W-Lan (HD or Ultra HD).

This "video choke" disturbs the regulator: in their eyes, it is a violation of net neutrality, so the equal treatment of traffic. In addition, Telekom expects the volume of streaming video data in other EU countries to be, which, according to the network agency, contravenes the principle "Roam Like At Home ", that is to say against the same use as in the countries of the EU. This amounts to two offenses for which network agencies must pay 100,000 euros fine.