[UgaBYTES] Broadband Everyone's Legal Right | Finland First Country to pass law

[Ndaula Sulah]

*Subject:* *Finland First Country to Make Broadband a Legal Right*
*Date:* October 14, 2009 12:07:41 PDT <http://bit.ly/3lSd6g>

Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications announced today that from
July 2010, every person in the country will have a legal right to at least
1Mb of broadband connection. Finland is the first country to guarantee
broadband access and has already initiated plans to increase the 1MB minimum
to 100Mb by 2015.

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TTFN,
*From:* "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net>

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Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:36 PM


Also, Hungary has a new law mandating that no one in the country should be
further than 10 KMs from a public internet access point (and this law is to
a considerable extent the results of the efforts of our community
informatics colleague Matyas Gaspar (Gáspár Mátyás <
gaspar.matyas at t-online.hu>) of the Hungarian Telecottages Assocation and the
European Union of Telecottage Assocations (and the Global Telecentre
Alliance)).

MBG
From: Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>
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*Related reaction
*Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:18 PM,

> Also, Hungary has a new law mandating that no one in the country should be
further than 10 KMs from a public internet access point

Highlights well some of the diversity and challenges we face – In other
countries and districts, 10km would not even get you to your next-door
neighbour :-)

This is in part the reason why Telecentre's in Aus were always viewed as
transitionary projects predominantly used to promote the need for home
Internet access - no matter how many Telecentres were built they were always
too far away for many people to use. In this respect our Telecentre’s were
also pivotal in promoting broadband for all – however in our case it mostly
resulted in Telecentres becoming obsolete (or re-branded as something else)
as broadband was deployed throughout our communities.
Don
From: Don Cameron <donc at internode.on.net>


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