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1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland

Posted by samzenpus on from the give-me-broadband-or-give-me-death dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."

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  1. Re:I understand these modern times and all... by hao3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes, america has no big cities. or corruption.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_scandals_of_the_United_States

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  2. Re:Meanwhile in America by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you know what 'on hiatus' means?

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  3. Pedantry by barakn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It seems like a tremendous waste of resources to provide everyone with a broadband connection and then cap them at a megabit. A lot of people could probably reach the cap within, well, a second. A few intrepid soles might switch back to reading email with Pine to stretch their megabit out. After losing millions of sales because everyone uses text-based web browsers for a day before going internet-dark, IKEA will underwrite a more reasonable broadband solution that provides a megabit PER SECOND.

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    1. Re:Pedantry by barakn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Soles? I bet you didn't know shoes could surf the internet.

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