Remove the Globe Broadband Traffic Shaping

We, the subscribers of Globe Broadband, a postpaid internet connection service provided by Globe Telecommunications primarily through its internet division Innove Communications, are appalled and infuriated by the injustice committed against us.

Around the 3rd Week of May of the year 2009, Globe has implemented a mechanism that limits non HTTP traffic to a mere 20\% of the total and actual available bandwidth. It is of strong evidence that Globe has initiated Traffic Shaping procedures possibly by the use of Deep Packet Inspection.
This mechanism has caused us, the paying subscribers, a significant slowdown on our various internet applications, namely but not limited to, Peer-to-Peer applications like BitTorrent, online gaming applications Garena and even FTP downloads.

With consistency throughout the country and across various subscribed speed, the bandwidth cap has been observed to be 20\% of the total and actual available bandwidth.

In addition, Globe has violated the principle of network neutrality of the internet by imposing traffic shaping mechanism that selectively allocates bandwidth to HTTP and non HTTP traffic.

Even more alarming, Globe, in order to achieve its goal, has possibly violated sacred principles of privacy by employing Deep Packet Inspection mechanisms. DPI goes beyond port and protocol blocking by including packet content analysis. This can be likened to the post office screening mail by looking inside of it instead of merely checking the addresses.

We, the subscribers, believe that great injustice has been committed to us, paying customers. As consumers, it is our right to demand what is due to us. It is not fair for us to pay for a certain amount of bandwidth only to be cheated out of it by mechanisms such as this. If a subscriber pays for a 1mbps connection, 1mbps of connection should be made available without limits or exceptions to how that subscriber chooses to utilize it.

Therefore, we demand that Globe Telecommunications through its arm Innove Communications remove the aforementioned selective bandwidth throttling mechanism and restore the previous network neutral configuration. We believe that Globe, acting as an ISP, should not dictate us consumers what we should do with our connection and consequently how we should appropriate our internet usage.