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Broadband now a legal right in Finland



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This is easy enough in Helsinki but Finland is not the most densely populated country in the world. Coverage in this wide area with few inhabitants (compared to Europe or say, the East Coast in the US) makes this very interesting.

Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.

From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.

Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.

In the UK the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has stopped short of enshrining this as a right in law.


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