Broadband as a Legal Right For Finnish

innominds · #1 (**permalink**) 10-15-2009, 10:18 AM

Finland will be the first country in the world to make 1 mbps broadband connection as the legal right.

For More Info:

Finland: Broadband Is a Legal Right - BusinessWeek

**cw1865** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-16-2009, 06:03 PM

I just looked at the article. Fairly interesting. This is apparently only an intermediate step towards greater connectivity by 2015.

kgun · #3 (**permalink**) 10-16-2009, 06:20 PM

As a neighbour, it has been reported in the new here. Note, the first SMS sent was between two persons from Finland. And I think they are looking beoynd that limit.

innominds · #4 (**permalink**) 10-17-2009, 09:02 AM

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the first SMS sent was between two persons from Finland

So the Finnish people are breaking the new trends and paving path for BETTER technology.

kgun · #5 (**permalink**) 10-17-2009, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by innominds

So the Finnish people are breaking the new trends and paving path for BETTER technology.

Technology / IT is one place where Scandinavia is in the front. In alphabetical order:

Denmark: C++, C#, BETA and Ruby on Rails (with a Japanese).
Finland: Wireless communication - Nokia the worlds largest Mobile Phone company.
Norway: First OOP Simula / BETA. The Opera Web browser, The Fast SE bought by Microsoft. Tandberg Media (Now bought by Cisco?) and NERA (wireless communication).
Sweden: Skype, Kaza, Ericsson (Another big Mobile Phone company).

kgun · #6 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 07:13 PM

How could I forget Linux and Finland?

Doc · #7 (**permalink**) 10-22-2009, 03:01 AM

Doesn't surprise me a bit. As Kjell says, Scandanavia leads in many areas of technological advances. I used to work for Fiskars, and their R&D efforts were phenomenal!

Where much of the world has looked at Japan's focus on productivity, they'd do well to also look at the Finns' focus on technology. I would imagine that's a common thread in much of Scandanavia.

**cw1865** · #8 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 12:16 PM

I would be interested to know what percentage of Finnish users already have broadband, in other words, how hard is this going to be to implement?

kgun · #9 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 01:27 PM

I don't know how it evolves in Finland, but can tell you what happens here:

A digital ground net ("digitalt bakke nett") is already well estabilshed. I don't know when it will be completed.
Security. Digital id's to the whole population that is more secure than the OpenID Foundation website.
Related to this id, a unique site where you communicate with the government.
Nearly monthly warnings on our Tv on how we shall protect ourself against scammers.

**cw1865** · #10 (**permalink**) 10-23-2009, 06:35 PM

Well, I am sure that supplying broadband to people in Helsinki is going to be the easiest part of the task in the sense that its a densely populated area and they can lay down fiber optic cable. I would think that supplying broadband over wireless to the more remote populations may prove to be a little bit more difficult.

Right now, if you were to say that every person has a right to a COLOR TV, well, most people have color TVs, if you were to say that every person has a right to an HDTV, well, that would prove more difficult of course. I was just curious if Finland was establishing a right to something that essentially already existed anyway, or if this is truly revolutionary, since I am unfamiliar with internet penetration into Finland's society I really have no way of knowing the relative impact such a resolution will have....If only 10% of Finland's population currently has broadband and the end result will be a society with near universal access to broadband, that of course makes the resolution infinitely more interesting and after the project is completed, it will be interesting to see what the full effects of such universal service would/could be.

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