Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband"

Reader adeelarshad82 writes to lets us know that Spain has now codified a "Right to Broadband," thus following the lead of Finland. Spain's industry minister announced that citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband Internet access of at least 1 Mb/sec at a regulated price wherever they live. The telecoms operator holding the so-called "universal service" contract would have to guarantee it could offer "reasonably" priced broadband throughout Spain.

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The right to broadband.

[rr00]

This is progressive thought.

We do have a right to high cycle/bandwidth connectivity. Baby steps like Facebook will prove to be beneficial to us all. Most of us on slashdot are operators to a longer-term human condition.

Things here will trend to this end. This is how it will be. And in many years, we will all be connected in ways that you can not imagine today.

Eventually human consciousness will coalesce with computing technology. (which would have likely evolved without our involvement.) Only then will we see that the universe that think we exist in today is nothing but a forgotten abstraction to the process that created us.

If you disagree then you do not understand what I am saying.

You are reading this as a being in a nearly infinitesimally portion of the complex fabric of reality. You hardly exist - but you are connected to the whole. We are all of the same.

When you see your shadow on the sidewalk as you're walking on an urban street to get some stimulant at Starbucks, know that even the process of projecting your shadow is far more remote and more incomprehensible than anyone will ever comprehend.

(the reason WHY you're walking to starbucks at that moment exists on another dimension.)

Good for Spain and Finland for their "rights of broadband." Of course, the politico-leaders did this in some perceived self-interest, but the truth is: the did it because it was meant to be --

and it was all related to your shadow on the sidewalk, but it wasn't really.

That's how it is.

Re:The right to broadband.

[bencollier]

Also, did you realise that TIME is CUBIC in NATURE?

Re:Before people start complaining that its only 1

[PopeRatzo]

I think our apps are unpopular here because we tend to be better looking, more popular, more intelligent and earn more money

You forgot "more gay".