The Ministry of Transport and Communications has decreed that beginning in July of 2010 every person in Finland will be legally entitled to a 1mbit/s broadband connection. This is a step along the way to already announced plans to make a 100mbit/s connection a legal right by the end of 2015. This also makes Finland the first country to create laws specifically guaranteeing broadband access for its citizens.

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