Finland First to Make Broadband a Legal Right
Finland has become the first country to make broadband a legal right.
That's right, you heard me. YLE reports that starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection. What's that? Do I hear some scoffing at the idea of a one-megabit connection? Well how about this, YLE goes on to say that the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications are guaranteeing that by 2015, this will be upped to a 100-megabit connection.
With a population of 5.5 million, Finland is the first but definitely won't be the last. Other European countries are expected to follow suit soon, including the United Kingdom.
Imagine being legally entitled to 100-megabit internet … Man, now would that be awesome or what? Now stop imagining, this is America, not Finland.

If your annual income is:__Your connection speed will be:
$0-$15,000_________________500Kb/sec
$15,000-$30,000____________1.5Mb/sec
$30,000-$60,000____________3Mb/sec
$60,000-$90,000____________6Mb/sec
$90,000-$175,000___________12Mb/sec
$175,000-$300,000__________18Mb/sec
$300,000 and up____________100Mb/sec
Liquid0h. It has nothing to do with greedy telecomms. You do realize they live in a socialist gov't. They get things handed to them but they also lose 50%+ of their income to taxes to pay for all these programs.
Of course, now that internet is a right, internet addictions of all kinds will now be claimed as disabilities. Of course, with free health care, its not like anyone in Finland will care.
How far people have fallen from mighty to weak little pinch-faced tools of technology. A paid service is called a privelege, not a right.
No.
Been living in Finland for 5 years now. You do not pay 50%+ in income taxes. As hellwig said, male Finnish citizens have to do mandatory conscription so, you don't get things handed to you here. Anyone who has been to the local unemployment office or Kela knows what I am talking about.
Let alone the crappy upload speeds Cable service has.
How about we go with fewer representatives, say, 1 per state?
Why first of all you need that speed? To support that speed you should have supporting computer…
Why you need that much info if your HDD or CPU cannot handle it?
Step by step, first go and get your SSD drive, then we will talk about 100Mbit internet