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Hi, Because you have direct experience, I'm curious if you could share what is different in their lives because they have a 100Mbps connection? What can they do on that connection that they can't do on a 1Mbps connection? How has it changed their lives? Travis Microserv e...@wisp-router.com wrote: 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 RightI 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/ |
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