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Finland Declares Broadband a Legal Right

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A one-megabit internet connection will be guaranteed to every Finn starting in July, said Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications on Wednesday.

But that’s just the beginning. A 100 megabit connection will be guaranteed to every Finnish citizen by the end of 2015.

Contrary to many reports circling the net, Sweden was actually the first to guarantee universal broadband access, in 2006, according to IntoMobile.

Universal broadband, universal healthcare, the decimation of invading Russians, Simo “White Death” Häyhä. Do we need any

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