Posts Tagged ‘government’

Applause For Fin­land: First Coun­try To Make Broad­band Access A Legal Right

October 14th, 2009

Kudos to the Finnish gov­ern­ment, which has just intro­duced laws guar­an­tee­ing broad­band access to every per­son liv­ing in Fin­land (5.5 mil­lion peo­ple, give or take).

This is report­edly a first worldwide.

Start­ing July 2010, every per­son in Fin­land will have the right to a one-megabit broad­band con­nec­tion as an inter­me­di­ate step, says the Min­istry of Trans­port and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. By the end of 2015, the legal right will be extended to an impres­sive 100 Mb broad­band con­nec­tion for everyone.

Accord­ing to Wikipedia, approx­i­mately 79 per­cent of the Finnish pop­u­la­tion use the Inter­net. Fin­land had around 1.52 mil­lion broad­band Inter­net con­nec­tions by the end of June 2007 or around 287 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Full story at: http://www.techcrunch.com/

Save Amer­ica! US on slip­pery slope to eco­nomic collapse

September 16th, 2009

Hav­ing a beer with big brother?

September 6th, 2009

Wall Street Jour­nal Inter­view with Tim­o­thy Geithner

August 27th, 2009