Last month we brought you newsof Finland’s intention to make broadband a legal right for its five million population.
Now Spain is following suit and from 2011, Telecom companies that are part of Spain’s “universal service” system will have to make broadband available at a “reasonable” price to everyone, including people living in rural parts of the country where it would normally be expensive to do so, Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said in a statement on Tuesday.
Until now, the “universal service” has only guaranteed internet via telephone line, fixed telephone, directory service and telephone booths.
Consumer group FACUA said it welcomed that broadband internet would finally be a right but said the speed was insufficient and the measure should be introduced before 2011.
Never happy these consumer groups.
If population is low, then benefits like these can be spread easily. Population quality over quantity brings about ‘abundanece’ and ‘forward looking laws’ like these.
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“Broadband” is a misleading term in Finland’s case, as it’s a country where cartels and politically elected boards can freely operate according to their whim. The said bandwidths currently work at around 260kbps when they’re marketed and sold as 2Mbps connections. This is in the cities – rural areas are just a joke.
Somebody apparently doesn’t know the difference between the figure you see at the bottom of the uTorrent (kilobytes per second) and the term universally used for selling broadband connections (kilobits per second).
Happily paying 39 euros per month here in Oulu, Finland for my 10/10 VDSL. And downloading more than 1 megabyte per second, with ease.
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