For a country with a 100% literacy rate, it’s no surprise that Finland today became the first nation to make broadband access a legal right.
As CNN reports, the legislation that goes into effect today was designed to force “telecom operators to provide a reasonably priced broadband connection with a downstream rate of at least one megabit per second (mbs) to every permanent residence and office.”
So stick that in your sauna, Big Media.
Of course, we all know the real reason Finland is so keen on getting everyone up and running on the Internet. It’s all a ruse to make Linux the number one operating system in the world.
Those sly Finns.
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That’s a very smart step, and I believe that access to such source of information should be a legal right of every single person – though it’s not possible at the moment. Anyway, I don’t think that Finns are the first – Internet access has been made a human right in some other countries before, or am I wrong?
Finland has Europe’s highest percent of home computer (83.5%), highest percent in education, ect. They have Nokia and some more electronic and IT company. So that Finland became to be the first nation to make broadband access a legal right is not a surprise for me. (I’m Swedish).