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Just to throw a bit of encouragment towards Plusnet, not only does Adam agree than Finnish Heavy metal is brilliant, but also Finland has got something right!
This is where Plusnet can rise above goverment cuts, and gradually take over the whole country and solve all it's problems by just doing what it does! - pssst. you might need a little BT mixed in for that to happen
Well done Finland!
Quote Finland on Thursday became the first country in the world to make access to a broadband service a basic right, ensuring that a high-speed Internet connection is available to all Finns, a government official said.
"Today the universal service obligation concerning Internet access of one Megabit per second (Mbit/s) has entered into force," Olli-Pekka Rantala of the communications networks unit at the ministry of transport and communications said.
"It is our understanding that we have become the first in the world to have made broadband a basic right," he added.
The tech-savvy Nordic country amended its communications market act last year to make sufficient Internet access a universal service, such as the telephone and postal services.
It was later determined by the ministry of communications "that what is meant by sufficient Internet access ... is one Megabit per second." Rantala said.
Finnish Communications Minister Suvi Linden called the new mandatory broadband regulation "one of the government's most significant achievements in regional policy."
"I'm proud of it," she said in a statement. "I hope that people will make use of the opportunity and turn to telecom operators in the area they live."
From July 1, service providers in Finland are thus obligated to provide a one Mbit/s connection to all Finnish households, regardless of their location.
The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) was in charge of designating universal service providers for areas where a high speed connection was not previously available.
The service obligation does not apply to summer residences, FICORA said on its website.
It added the price of an Internet connection provided by a universal service provider "must be reasonable," but that the provider could take into consideration "the costs incurred from the production of the service."
The Finnish government has also launched a project to connect all Finns to the Internet with fast fibre-optic or cable networks by 2015.
"The objective of the project is that nearly all (more than 99 percent of the) permanent places of residence and places of business and public administration are no further than two kilometres from a 100 Mbit/s fibre-optic cable network," FICORA said.
This is where Plusnet can rise above goverment cuts, and gradually take over the whole country and solve all it's problems by just doing what it does! - pssst. you might need a little BT mixed in for that to happen
Well done Finland!
I was out of work last year for 6 months thanks to redundancy and didn't expect a free ride from anybody.....and nor would I expect to ever subsidise anybody else's.Why is it people with kids assume they're a priority when it comes to anything possibly being offered for nothing ?
In my opinion it should be the elderly or incapacitated. As far as I'm concerned home broadband is still a luxury we can do without if we have to. We don't choose to nor wish to be without but we won't die, nor will peoples' kids, if they don't have one.
Cheers, Lynda~
In my opinion it should be the elderly or incapacitated. As far as I'm concerned home broadband is still a luxury we can do without if we have to. We don't choose to nor wish to be without but we won't die, nor will peoples' kids, if they don't have one.
Cheers, Lynda~
Yes you could do that providing they are on the same network or It would work out expensive, The price of a stamps not much though or have people forgot how to write letters? I have 02 and get unlimited calls,texts, and picture messages to people In my family group for £7.50 a month.Plus 300 free texts for others. Oh and £2.50 spare 
T'was only an example, the family thing, but the same could go with anyone, we seem to spend billions abroad without so much of a hesitation, but if we concentrated on those families, who wish to better themselves and their children through education and to expand their knowledge of IT through a computer and broadband then why not? Yes help the elderly keep in touch with their grandkids via skype, and those too incapciated can use it as a social centre, as well as provide them access to informaiton they otherwise wouldn't have.
We all don't seen to want handouts or charity, but unless a effort is made to help those less fortunate then ourselves then we're not going to get anywhere are we?
It made me wonder the other day when folk being interviewed about what cuts they would like to see, and most said they would like to see job seekers cut, so, in turn, what happens when they lose their job, despite paying the national insurance and their tax, they suddenly find themselves unable to survive on a cut job seekers allowance?
The more lives that can be improved the better it is for everyone, and if one way is through a sponsored broadband and computer package then why not?
People shouldn't, but children are our future, and even their homework is now Internet orientated, things shouldn't have to be handed out for free, but if there is an opportunity to help, then why not? This country has gone into self preservation mode, which is natural under the circumstances, but I think we’ve also turned very selfish, everything is too “I” “Me” “Self” orientated. I’ve always believed in helping those who help themselves first, but we need to learn to share, and look after our neighbours and those on our own doorstep less fortunate than ourselves, this isn’t about throwing away free stuff for those who may qualify, this is about providing betterment, support, and opportunity that otherwise may not exist.
We all don't seen to want handouts or charity, but unless a effort is made to help those less fortunate then ourselves then we're not going to get anywhere are we?
It made me wonder the other day when folk being interviewed about what cuts they would like to see, and most said they would like to see job seekers cut, so, in turn, what happens when they lose their job, despite paying the national insurance and their tax, they suddenly find themselves unable to survive on a cut job seekers allowance?
The more lives that can be improved the better it is for everyone, and if one way is through a sponsored broadband and computer package then why not?
Quote Why is it people with kids assume they're a priority when it comes to anything possibly being offered for nothing ?
People shouldn't, but children are our future, and even their homework is now Internet orientated, things shouldn't have to be handed out for free, but if there is an opportunity to help, then why not? This country has gone into self preservation mode, which is natural under the circumstances, but I think we’ve also turned very selfish, everything is too “I” “Me” “Self” orientated. I’ve always believed in helping those who help themselves first, but we need to learn to share, and look after our neighbours and those on our own doorstep less fortunate than ourselves, this isn’t about throwing away free stuff for those who may qualify, this is about providing betterment, support, and opportunity that otherwise may not exist.