This describes the minimum standards a service provider of some kind
needs to meet in order to gain a listing on dslreports.com

Document last modified: Thu Oct 26 15:40:09 EDT 2006

1. The BSP is not a pure reseller of other service.

2. The BSP has a business location, staffed with sales, management and
engineering. It is fully registered as a business in its home state or
country and does not have an extensive unresolved consumer complaints
record with the state authorities.

3. The BSP has a quality website, with direct and 1-800 numbers, and
human sales service and support staff.

(For broadband service providers..)

4. The BSP owns and manages routers, located or colocated in quality
data centers that have backup power systems.

5. The BSP wholly owns or has delegated IP blocks.

6. The BSP has an anti-spam and anti-abuse policy, and is not currently
listed as a promoter or facilitator of spammers or spam tools.

7. The PRIMARY business of the BSP is end-user or business broadband
services.

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No discussion will be entered into over any decision against listing
made under these requirements. If an application is rejected, a second
application can be made at a later date