Finland: 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right

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Well, this is good news! Starting next July 2010, Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications will make sure that every person in Finland has access to a one-megabit broadband connection!

But that’s not all: this small but very ambitious country with a population of only  5.3million people, aims to make 100Mb broadband connection a legal right by the end of 2015. Woah!! Imagine that.

For sure this won’t be a difficult thing to achieve since Finland has the second-highest broadband penetration rate in the EU.

While this is indeed a great step for connecting everybody to the WWW I’m still looking forward to seeing which country will make mobile internet a legal right :D ? How far we from that? 5 years, 10?

Well, until we will get unlimited mobile internet connection, I guess some of us will be fully enjoying their rights and use Nimbuzz on their PC and Mac.

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Andrei Piftor (Andi) on October 19th, 2009 in News

18 Responses to “Finland: 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right”

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  2. Now if only the Australian government would do something like this. Instead, they are spending billions on internet censorship, for shame.

    Aussie October 19th, 2009

  3. Great news for Land of nokia, i’ve heard this news on BBC Also. It is somewhat surprising thought. However, in 10yrs to 50yrs in the future, i imagine internet speed will move onto higher megabytes or perhaps reach Gigabytes. Because nowadays files are becoming larger and larger to download. For youngs, internet is indispensable, specially for torrent users. I wonder how nimbuzz will use these as new advantages. Yet, in my small country Mauritius, which nobody ever heard, mobile internet is somewhat expensive. The more data you use, the more you pay. That is one of the reason i use BombusMod, because it has data compression feature. Which i will glady appreciate if nimbuzz had it.

    Anonymz03* October 20th, 2009

  4. Something interesting is that news like this, is good for our General Knowledge. New stuff we learn, like Finland has a population of 5.3 million people…

    Anonymz03* October 20th, 2009

  5. Mobile internet a legal right, in my country, Indonesia with over 200 bilion people which up to 70% are mobile user, mobile internet not yet become a legal right. But our governor in end of 2012 aims to provide internet connection both broadband and mobile cheaper than this time. Nowadays cost for mobile internet access data is $0.1/1Mb, possible it’s the reason how many Nimbuzz and other internet apps user come from Indonesia.

    Street.Walker October 20th, 2009

  6. Nimbuzz is going critical these days. Are developers noticing that? Or they are just sitting blindly and developing another improved version?

    Anonymz03* October 20th, 2009

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  8. @Anonymz03*
    Thanks for your comment.
    What exactly is critical in Nimbuzz these days for you?
    Can you please describe more details about the exact issues you are experiencing?
    Please let us know and we will come back to you about it.
    Kind regards.

    Nimbuzz Support October 21st, 2009

  9. @Street.Walker
    Thanks for sharing the information!
    Kind regards.

    Nimbuzz Support October 21st, 2009

  10. When i enter in room, i chat, when suddenly after 8mins, the chatroom started responding slower. While private chats works fine and fast. But the chatroom starts getting slower, slow received message, its like the chatroom is dead. And those crashing problem are so unbearable.

    Anonymz03* October 21st, 2009

  11. @Anonymz03*
    Thanks for reporting this.
    We are currently working in order to have some issues with Chatrooms solved as soon as possible.
    Thanks & Regards

    queralt escrich October 21st, 2009

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  13. @streetwalker.

    I really hope that indonesia internet will go into a good direction. I live in Indonesia too.

    But the new ministry of telecommunication is NOT an expert in communication. He just got the title because his political party were the main supporter to the winning party. Which is a shame. Because he’s a real dumb in telecommunication. He’s main agenda to became the ministry is too create cencorship on the internet (he’s from the islamic party that were against porn on the internet)

    :) a sad day for indonesian internet future.!!!

    cycnus October 21st, 2009

  14. I have a question. what about the land of skype and brothernation of Finland? The living legend no-one has heard of and its oversea of Finland. what has nimbuzz offer to Estonia?

    daniel October 22nd, 2009

  15. @daniel
    Thanks for your comment.
    We can offer you our application for Free, so you can contact other friends from all over the world. For more information check our website http://www.nimbuzz.com
    Note that we are not offering better services to other countries.
    Let us know if you have more questions:)
    Regards

    queralt escrich October 23rd, 2009

  16. @cynus: i am doubt,
    it’s just our opinion about persona,
    now the world (usa, chinese, australian and more) is also against pornographic n pornoaction on the net. We all know porn are the great enemy from the net. Porn is violating the information technology.
    We must consert on how make internet n call cost more reachable without any decreasing the quality.
    Your opinion is abt why porn is against, n internet cencorship. Why? :D

    Street.Walker October 23rd, 2009

  17. Here in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia the average ISP offers 50mbits for about 10 euros per month. In the other big cities the local ISPs also offer nice speeds of >30mbits. The smaller cities count on adsl connections of 12 mbits

    Alexander October 26th, 2009

  18. [...] if  I think about the fact that Finland is considering to make 1Mb broadband access legal right that almost makes me move there [...]

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