Lately, my referrer log is crawling with hits from people in Finland, who are apparently OBSESSED with that guy driving his frontloader from one end of the country to the other, and I mean something like 80% of my daily traffic all coming from Finns, not just a couple here and there.
Obviously they have lots to time to spend online in Finland. So much, that the government there just declared broadband a legal right for every citizen in the country, guaranteeing every Finn a 100-megabit connection at home by 2015, and 1Mbps as of TODAY. By way of comparison, in the U.S. broadband penetration is still only at 60%, which puts a huge segment of households at connection speeds below that 1Mbps threshold, even though the average downlink connection speed here is 5Mbps. According to the FCC, 18% of American households still connect to the Internet at download speeds of 768Kbps or slower.
South Korea continues to be the world leader in connectivity with 98% penetration and an average downlink speed of 20Mbps. Finland’s effort should leapfrog it into the top tier along with South Korea and Japan.
