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From Digg:

The news that a service provider was forcing its broadband customers to pay a premium to use VoIP from Vonage shows that it’s time for a “broadband bill of rights.”

Here’s what I want in The Internet Bill of Rights:

1. 100% Guarunteed Bandwidth alotment
   
2. Right to connect anything to the network
   
3. Right to connect any number of systems to a network
   
4. Right to run any type of service (eg. Webserver) without having to pay for a “Buisness” Connection
   
5. Right to use all ports
   
6. Right to privacy. (eg. Telco cant release any information to anyone without written consent)
   
7. Right to a reliable connection (99% uptime, no flakey hardware [like my DSL modem])
   
8. Right to Simplified pricing (?) (eg. All Taxes, fees must be included in advertised price)
   
9. Right to intelligent and understandable tech suport. (Not everyone is a granny with her first E-Mail Account, and sometimes the customer knows what they’re talking about)
   
10. Right to Competition (eg. Allow Verizon to use Alltel’s DSL lines and allow Adelphia to use Comcast’s Coaxial cable)
    
11. Right to access any service on any server, reguardless of location or content (eg. No Great Firewall of China)
    

Thats all I want in a Telco. Maybe I’m dreaming… maybe I’m not.

-jX

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