First country in world to make internet access a legal right
Helsinki: Finland has adopted a policy to provide internet access as a legal right for all citizens in the sparsely populated country. The minister of communications said that "a reasonable priced and high quality broadband connection will be everyone's basic right" from Thursday.
Suvi Linden says that 26 telecom operators, "defined as universal service providers, must be able to provide every permanent residence and business office" with access to a connection with a downstream rate of at least 1 megabit per second(MBps). Communications officials say 99% of all households in the nation of 5.3 million already have broadband access of at least 1Mbps.]
"Today the universal service obligation concerning internet access of one Mbit/s has entered into force," Olli Pekka Rantala of the communications network unit at the ministry of transport and communications said. "It is our understanding that we have become the first in the world to have made broadband a basic right."
The tech-savvy Nordic country amended its communications market act last year to make sufficient internet access a universal service, such as the telephone ans postal services.
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