[x-pubpol] Finland: 100mb for all by 2015

[Joly MacFie]

[Presumably not symmetric, no mention of upstream capacity. Still trying to
figure out wher the 200 in the title comes from.]

http://news.wooeb.com/979821/c1/report-finlands-new-200mbs-service-supporting-the-governments-national-broadband-plan-for-2015

The government's Broadband Action Plan aims to deliver fibre-based
broadband for all citizens by 2015. The Plan would deliver 100Mb/s services
nationally, a significant improvement on the minimum 1Mb/s envisaged in
2004. To finance the State contribution the government auctioned
frequencies in the 2.5-2.69GHz band at the end of 2009, with some of the
proceeds going towards network rollout and the shortfall being met by a tax
on telcos based on the number of their broadband subscriptions.

- Fibre is largely a preserve of the larger cities, while in smaller
centres commercial activity is being stimulated by funds made available
through the government's National Broadband Strategy. The government and
regulator have targeted a national fibre or cable network enabling 100Mb/s
connections across the country by 2015. The regulator estimated that by
2015 about 94% of connections would be within reach of the network. The
cost of connections was estimated at between €2,000 and €3,000 per
household, with some more remote areas costing up to €10,000 per household.

- To support the National Broadband plan, TeliaSonera has accelerated its
investments in fibre-based broadband while in mid-2011 the provider SSP
Yhtiöt, part of the Finnet Group, contracted Alcatel-Lucent to deploy
Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) in its network.
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