American Broadband Bill of Rights

The Rural Mobile Broadband Alliance has proposed a Broadband Bill of Rights, containing five key guiding principles in the debate over broadband connectivity in rural and underserved areas. RuMBA believes all Americans should have access to a network that is: 1) Ubiquitous - Services and devices should work seamlessly everywhere: in rural, suburban and urban areas. America needs an additional two million square miles of coverage. 2) Safe - Americans need E911 with location service and an emergency Cell Broadcast System with weather and disaster alerting. Katrina-like outages are unacceptable. 3) Mobile - Whether in the car, on the tractor, at home, in school, at work and all areas in between, our nation relies on mobility; our networks must reflect our lifestyle needs. 4) Affordable - Rural Americans demand competitive pricing for services and devices. We need the same or better services and devices as the rest of the country, at a fair price. 5) Sustainable - America must invest in next generation systems that can be operated at a profit and maintained by our local small town carriers. We must leap ahead, buy tomorrow's technologies, not yesterday's.