Internet Providers can not legally bill additional charges for any range of Internet Services
Posted on October 10.2007 by Michael.Allan.Murphy
Any provider with prospects of billing customers with additional charges based on the type of Internet Server whether it be Web, Email, Chat, or other would be committing a crime and conspiring to monopolize the industry. The Internet Providers do not own or operate these remote services and have no authority to charge for them. These services are owned and operated by 3rd party vendors and any additional charge to access a service the Internet Provider does not own or operate is illegal and an attempt to monopolize the internet. Such tactics would prevent newly developed applications from ever reaching business potentional because they would be untestable in an environment where users are required to pay the Internet Provider an additional fee to access a new service on a new internet port. College students applications would not be able to communicate across The Internet with other Colleges burying an era of the Internet where such communication between colleges lead the way for the Internet and the advances that followed. The only area Internet Providers legally have the right to charge additional fees are in the areas of connection duration and bandwidth consumption. Any attempt to make filterated charges based on 3rd party vendor services would be illegal otherwise. Internet Providers should also recognize that they will never be able to employ a large enough customer service force to handle the perpetual adding and removal of the almost endless range of Internet capable applications in existence.
An additional opinion I have on related issues is the regulation of the Internet. I hold strongly the belief that the Government should regulate The Internet and not allow it's fate to hang in the wind. Examples of regulations needed are spam control, internet crime, and the adult entertainment industry. Email headers should include additional headers that mark an email as Commerical or Non-commercial with an embedded unsubscribe link in the header so email clients can handle unsubscribing through the application interface. Unsubscribe sites should inform the user whether their email address has been removed or whether it has been removed and sold to another party. There should be cascading unsubscribing that denies the vendor from removing the users email address from their own list and selling it to another party. More money should be allocated in the area of Internet Security. Adult Entertainment sites should be required to exist solely on top level domains ending in .xxx to simplify filtering.
Internet Morality not Internet Monopoly
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