The consumer center North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will file a lawsuit against the cable network provider Unitymedia because of WifiSpot. As WifiSpot, the company designates a planned network of WLAN hotspots, for which the customers should provide their routers. This is done automatically, instead of the fact that Unitymedia has a consent (opt-in) in advance from its customers. If you do not want WifiSpot, you must proactively opt-out.
The company has not responded to a warning and ongoing criticism from the consumer protection as desired. Instead of opt-out to the opt-in procedure for the launch of WifiSpot, Unitymedia only adapted the usage conditions. In this, the company clarified the question of whether or not users should turn off their router when they are not used, because a shutdown would limit WifiSpot access for other users, which was clearly prohibited in the original form of the conditions
In contrast to golem.de, Unitymedia has expressed its opinion that the company will face the "dispute". Unitymedia is of the opinion that the "unblocking of a second SSID [of a second wireless network] is legally possible without the express consent of the customer." Which court will clarify this remains to be seen. To date, the Consumer Center NRW has merely formulated the plan to go to court.
The Consumer Center NRW also hopes to deal with the principle of the question of how many providers of rights have access to equipment which is provided on a leasing basis or as part of a rental agreement
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