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Help Us Create a Broadband Bill of Rights

Posted on September 22, 2008

On Friday, Comcast filed its network management plan, which we covered as did NewTeeVee. However, in the comments of the post, it became clear that customers don t really know what they re buying when they shell out $30 to $100 a month for a broadband connection. So I m thinking that we need to create a Broadband Bill of Rights so consumers know exactly what they re signing up for.Since we re living in the real world we should frame our Bill of Rights with two basic understandings: (1) ISPs don t face much competition, leaving most of us with two choices in our markets: cable or DS...

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