Finland makes broadband access a legal rightThe Finnish government has become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right.
According to local reports, the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Helsinki has pushed through a law that will force telecommunications providers to offer high speed internet connections to all of the country's 5.3 million citizens.
Wow, everyone will have access to the internet at 1Mb/sec
In an announcement in September, Ms Linden committed to making 100Mb internet access - one hundred times faster than the connections mandated under the current law - available to all Finnish residents by 2015.
That is amazing... 100 Mb/sec! Can you even get that anywhere in the US as a non-business customer?
It looks like we keep falling further and further behind
We really need to put some effort into this.