"Harry Stottle" <sorryspamdoesntwork@nospam.uk.co> wrote in message
news:q2qFj.3546$6R1.1904@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...[color=blue]
>I was considering taking out a mobile broadband service and was looking
>through the options. T-mobile are advertising their Web'n'Walk service at
>£15.00/month for 3 GB, but when I dug through a couple of layers of small
>print, I found the following
> <Quote> We do not permit use of this service for internet phone
> calls</Quote>
> Link [url]http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/uk/fairuse/[/url]
> This seems like a restrictive practice to me, a mobile phone company
> providing a different type of service, but banning users of that service
> from using it in a way that could result in competition to their main
> service. How do others see this, and does anyone know if this could be
> challenged legally, because if T-Mobile are allowed to get away with
> banning internet phone calls through their broadband service, then I can
> see VoIP being increasingly threatened.[/color]

This is fair enough as far as I can see, as long as they tell you in advance
can not see an issue with this. They offer a service
and is up to user to agree if they want it or not. Why would any company
offer a service which would cut their core business