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1st world Finland citizen 1MB broadband legal rights, 100MB by 2015
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07-04-2010, 09:28 PM
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Can you then rather view this from another perspective that legislated protection of Basic Rights had been Expanded to Internet Access (with various stated speeds) for Finland, which is the 1st in the world.
Basic Rights alike access to food and water is something that is not legally removable from any one even in prison. This time we are seeing Finland expanding this scope into Internet access.
Please don't become too distracted by these legislated (minimum) speed figures. 1Mbps is very little to be a figure for Internet access speed, I am sure they can get normally much higher e.g. 12Mbps there in EU. They are just not specifying the higher end as the legal minimum, just to ensure that such law does not become too unreasonable or impossible at times to be complied.
This isn't a law aimed to improve the national Internet speed, otherwise it would had been introduced as an ISP License Requirement that min user access speed can not drop below 1Mbps, or else ISPs' license conditions would be violated, and may be license be suspended / canceled. This is not the case now. This is from the angle of protecting citizens basic rights that everyone should have the legal rights to get access to Internet at that specified minimum speed.
Legal rights become an asset useful in court cases.
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