wvdial instead of kinternet?

As kinternet sometimes hangs during or after getting email I studied the alternative wvdial. Somebody on the list meant that wvdial was without this kind of problems and after setting it up it ran without trouble. Read the man pages concerning wvdial and did the configuration. Trying to run wvdial I get following info: Can't read config file /etc/wvdial.conf: Permission denied /etc/wvdial.conf is owned by root/root What should it be in order to get wvdial working?