You can get 6mbit mobile broadband sometimes as a "perk" for getting a permanent connection in your apartment/house. My parents had a 26Mbit down DSL connection out in the sticks (5miles from closest bus stop and grocery store) before they moved to a city (35min away and closest city within an hours drive of a 55k population, celebrated 800 years about 5 yrs ago) and now have a 100Mbit connection.
/Eje Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: "Mike Hammett" <wispawirel...@ics-il.net> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:07:45 To: WISPA General List<wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Broadband Internet Access Deemed a Legal Right 100 meg is quite prevalent in Scandinavia and 1 gig is spreading. A 1 meg guarantee isn't much of anything there. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 3:46 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Broadband Internet Access Deemed a Legal Right > I can see somewhere in the near future, after all major technologies > converge into devices that run on whatever version of the "internet" we > will > have at that time, that this would be a feasible argument however at this > moment and probably in the next 10 years the vast majority of us will be > able to live and survive perfectly fine with no internet. > > I don't understand the 1mg limit for the human right. Most information, > other than video, can be had at mere dial up speed. How would slower > internet speeds be the difference between life or death? > > My 15 year old..... > > "Dad! If I can't see the Whack-a-kitty video on YouTube I'm just gonna > die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" > > Okay, that much I DO understand. > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of David Hulsebus > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 3:44 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: [WISPA] Broadband Internet Access Deemed a Legal Right > > FYI > > From SANS Newsbites Vol. 11 Num. 82 : Broadband Internet Access Deemed > a Legal Right > > --Finland Declares 1Mb Broadband Access a Legal Right > (October 14 & 15, 2009) > The Finnish government has enacted a law making 1Mb broadband Internet > access a legal right. The law will take effect in July 2010. The > country may eventually guarantee its citizens the right to 100Mb > broadband connections. Finland's Transport and Communications Ministry > spokesperson Laura Vikkonen was quoted as saying that "We think [the > Internet is] something you cannot live without in modern society. Like > banking services or water or electricity, you need an Internet > connection." Earlier this year, France declared Internet access to be > a human right. > http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html > http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/10/15/finland-m > akes-broadband-internet-a-legal-right.aspx > > > > Dave Hulsebus > Portative Technologies, LLC > www.portative.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
