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Year 2010, Where Broadband is a "Right" in Finland
by ilsundal at 2:55 pm EDT, Jul 1, 2010 |
Finland is now the first country in the world where every citizen is entitled to high-speed Internet connection, starting today. A similar plan for the United States faces hurdles and will likely take years to come to fruition. As of July 1, "every Finn will have the right to access to a 1 megabit per second broadband connection," with a goal of a 100 mbps connection by 2015.
We have reached ... the distant future, where broadband internet access is as much of a right as water, in Finland. |
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RE: Year 2010, Where Broadband is a "Right" in Finland
by Rattle at 11:08 am EDT, Jul 2, 2010 |
ilsundal wrote: Finland is now the first country in the world where every citizen is entitled to high-speed Internet connection, starting today. A similar plan for the United States faces hurdles and will likely take years to come to fruition. As of July 1, "every Finn will have the right to access to a 1 megabit per second broadband connection," with a goal of a 100 mbps connection by 2015.
We have reached ... the distant future, where broadband internet access is as much of a right as water, in Finland.
This might help the situation here: President Obama on Friday will announce 66 new broadband grants and loans totaling $795 million, part of the administration's continued rollout of Recovery Act grants meant to expand high-speed Internet connections across the country.
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