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Other => Geek Section => Topic started by: Lord Deacon Of Frost on October 17, 2009, 01:05:17 AM
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Finland Makes Broadband a Legal Right
Finland has now joined only a handful of nations to make broadband access a legal right for all its citizens.
The Ministry of Transport and Communications pa**ed through a law requiring telecommunication companies in the country to provide Internet connection speeds of at least 1 Megabit per second (Mbps) to some 5.2 million Finnish by July 2010.
According to local news reports, the local government last month had pledged to mandate online access speeds of 100Mbps for all citizens by the end of 2015.
The latest law is an intermediary measure toward that target, the Ministry said.
The new legislation allows for some variation, for instance, on the delivery platform where access can be provided via mobile phone networks.
Some 96 percent of Finnish are already connected but the country's communications ministry said the new law was necessary to extend access in rural areas.
Stats from the International Telecommunication Union put Finland's 2008 Internet subscriber base at around 82.6 percent, or 26.8 per 100 inhabitants.
According to news reports, Finland now joins countries such as France to make Web access a human right but is the first to include access speed in its mandate.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044908,62058675,00.htm
THE TELKOM BOARD WOULD BE SHITTING BRICKS IF THIS HAPPENED HERE
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We can only wish! Screw telkom man!!
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You love the internet too much.
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Mxm! Best way to connect with people
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conscientious society, great educational system and now this!!!
The whole world should be ran the Fins.