In Ireland 0.6% of broadband connections are fibre optic; By 2015 every Finnish household must be within 2km of fibre optic cable running at 100 megabits per second
Jan 24th, 2010 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
In Ireland 0.6 percent of total broadband connections are fibre connections. This compares to 11.3 percent of subscribers on average in OECD-28 countries. In 2009, Finland's government announced that access to a broadband internet connection was a human right, and that everyone in the country must have a connection with a minimum speed of one megabit by this summer. Now the country's going even further - - by 2015 every household must be within 2km of a fibre optic cable supplying superfast broadband running at 100 megabits per second.