Comment Re:I hate you all (Score 1) 449
(sorry for posting twice, had the text type as html in the first one so it had a slight lack of paragraphing)
Please. While Finland's ISPs haven't yet gone down the path of having customers pay for additional bandwidth, our network connections are far from good. Actually, I believe were are the worst off of all the Nordic countries as usual.
Mostly our problems are caused by the moronic telecom system we have in place, namely every area has a single telecom monopoly operating in it which is usually the only ISP too. The telecoms will do anything to stop people from getting faster connections, so it's doubtful that the situation will get any better. It didn't really help that our goverment blew tons of money into digital tv (which is a completely retarded system in the first place as it can't even compete with analog signals in terms of quality), apparently a sum large enough to have covered the cost of building a fiber network which would've reached the majority of the people in Finland. So now we have a digital tv broadcasting system nobody gives a damn about and which can't be used for anything else instead of a proper fiber network.
I pay 50 euros a month for 512/512kbit ADSL and I'm one of the lucky ones, a lot of people have to pay more for less bandwidth. The only exception to the overall shitty bandwidth/price ratio is the city of Oulu, which has some sort of special deal with Cisco.
As for our wireless connections, well, Japan is lightyears ahead of us to name one place which has things better.
Please. While Finland's ISPs haven't yet gone down the path of having customers pay for additional bandwidth, our network connections are far from good. Actually, I believe were are the worst off of all the Nordic countries as usual.
Mostly our problems are caused by the moronic telecom system we have in place, namely every area has a single telecom monopoly operating in it which is usually the only ISP too. The telecoms will do anything to stop people from getting faster connections, so it's doubtful that the situation will get any better. It didn't really help that our goverment blew tons of money into digital tv (which is a completely retarded system in the first place as it can't even compete with analog signals in terms of quality), apparently a sum large enough to have covered the cost of building a fiber network which would've reached the majority of the people in Finland. So now we have a digital tv broadcasting system nobody gives a damn about and which can't be used for anything else instead of a proper fiber network.
I pay 50 euros a month for 512/512kbit ADSL and I'm one of the lucky ones, a lot of people have to pay more for less bandwidth. The only exception to the overall shitty bandwidth/price ratio is the city of Oulu, which has some sort of special deal with Cisco.
As for our wireless connections, well, Japan is lightyears ahead of us to name one place which has things better.
