{"id":6883,"date":"2009-11-18T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=6883"},"modified":"2015-05-09T21:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T04:58:20","slug":"finland-spain-push-net-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/finland-spain-push-net-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland &#038; Spain Push Net Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/europe-net-S.jpg\" alt=\"europe-net-S\" width=\"350\" height=\"346\" \/>NOV. 18, 2009 \u2022 Both Finland and Spain announce similar universal Internet access programs. In Finland, the government mandated 1Mbps universal service be instituted by July 1 of this year, with an emphasis on access in rural and sparsely populated areas. The Spanish government announced a similar 1Mbps universal service mandate to be reached by Jan. 1, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: High-speed home Internet access is the biggest driver of market growth for games and many other forms of digital content.\u00a0 When a government invests heavily in infrastructure it usually means it will be followed by growth in the game industry.\u00a0 Both Spain and Finland were already growing rapidly.\u00a0 Finland&#8217;s broadband penetration is over 70% of households while Spain had passed the 50% mark.\u00a0 However, unlike a country like South Korea, both countries have significant rural and remote populations, and reaching those areas often requires government support.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 18, 2009 \u2022 Both Finland and Spain announce similar universal Internet access programs. In Finland, the government mandated 1Mbps universal service be instituted by July 1 of this year, with an emphasis on access in rural and sparsely populated areas. The Spanish government announced a similar 1Mbps universal service mandate to be reached by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14147,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions\/14147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}