Broadband Now A Legal Right In Finland All citizens to get 100 Mbps service by 2015 Thursday Jul 01 2010 08:18 EDT While Finland only has 5.3 million residents to our 300+ million -- the Finnish government has decided that every one of those citizens will be getting 1 Mbps by July 1, 2 Mbps by 2012 and 100 Mbps service by 2015. While the U.S. bickers over whether investing taxpayer money into your country's infrastructure is evil, the Finnish government has declared that broadband is now a legal right for every citizen. That legal right became official today -- and given that broadband is now considered a right and a Finnish utility, Techdirt notes that the government won't be kicking people off of the Internet for trading copyrighted files (though users will get letters). |