On 16-10-2009 17:33, Chambers wrote:
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Finland-Broadband-Legal-Right,8858.html#xtor=RSS-181 

We are not this far, though effectively 80 or 90% (I don't have the 
right statistics at hand) of the population has access to broadband anyway.
The postoffice has an obligation here to deliver the mail to everybody. 
(which is a problem if you allow competition at the same time because 
the most obvious way to decrease costs is to deliver only in big 
cities). This is the same sort of arrangement.

> My first question, of course, is how this will be paid for :)

In the end the consumer, but I guess that the idea will be to have 
companies do a bid to be able to offer broadband and only getting this 
if they also make sure they can deliver to anybody anywhere in Finland.

> If it's merely a mandate that access must be available, then companies 
> will make it available and charge an arm and a leg for it.  This is 
> probably how we would do it in the US :(

Any reasonable parliament understands that and includes that cost should 
be equal to everybody. In a sense people in Helsinki and Tampere  pay 
for the people in remote areas.

> Anybody have more details?

No, just guessing ;)

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