Finland became the first country in the world today to make access to broadband a legal right. Starting today, 5.3 million Finnish citizens are now legally eligible to have a broadband connection with a speed of at least 1Mbps.

The move came considering internet had become an integral part of everyone’s life, which the government also acknowledged. 96 percent of the Finnish population is online and around 4,000 homes are left that needs to comply with the minimum speed.

Finnish government also promised to give citizens at least a 100Mbps internet connection by end of 2015.

[Via ET]

While a basic consumer in India is still struggling to get over 2Mbps, Japanese residents will soon be able to upload and download at a speed of up to 1Gbps. This is totally insane and the insanity will be provided by a Japanese company, KDDI Corp. The major beneficiaries of this service will be the consumers in east Japan as till now the highest speed they used to get was 100Mbps.

KDDI will be providing the fiber-optic services starting from October 1 at a price of 5,985 Yen ($56).

[Via JapanToday]

You read it right fellas. Guys from the stateside enjoy good internet speeds but it’s nothing when you compare it with the highest developed South Asian country, Japan. The result came after the participation of more than 230,000 residents in a survey carried out by Communications Workers of America for their Speed Matters campaign.

The average median download speed from 2007 to 2008 found was just a mere gain of 0.4mbps to 2.3mbps in the current year. Now if you think it’s really fast then think again because Japan’s average download speed is 63mbps.

Upload speed was around 430kbps.

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