[Chapter-delegates] Enforcing access "speed" on ISPs

[Tommi Karttaavi]

Dear Marcin, all,

I guess the "similar scheme in Finland" refers to the section about the 
universal service obligation, under the Communications Market Act 
(393/2003).

Section 67f/2: "Provisions on the minimum rate of a functional Internet 
access referred to above in subsection 2 are issued by a decree of the 
Ministry of Transport and Communications. Prior to the issuance of the 
decree, the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority shall examine 
the data transfer service markets, prevailing access rates available to 
the majority of subscribers and level of technological development, and 
estimate the financial impacts of the regulation on telecommunications 
operators"

The decree mentioned in the law has been in effect since Aug 1, 2010 and 
states that the minimum rate of a functional Internet access is 1 Mbit/s 
(downstream).

The degree also says that the average minimum rate downstream is 750 
kbits/s within a 24 hour period and 500 kbit/s within any 4 hour period.

This is the same law that was in the news last year that was said to 
make Internet connection a fundamental right in Finland.

The law in English:
http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2003/en20030393.pdf

The decree in Finnish:
http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/alkup/2009/20090732

I'm copying this message to the Board of ISOC Finland in case someone 
can give more information or wants to comment.

Best regards,

Tommi

On 7.3.2011 1:45, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Polish Ministry of Infrastructure (which is sometimes dealing
> with telecommunications, independently of the telecom operator body)
> wants to implement some kind of tougher enforcement of the connection
> parameters of the Internet connection offered
> by the ISP.
>
> They plan to introduce a rule that the "minimal connection speed
> should not be lower than 90% of the contractual or advertized
> connection speed".
>
> This poses numerous problems, including things like, definition
> of "connection speed", from where to where it is measured,
> ignoring isses like latency or etc.
>
> On the other hand there is a general opinion that mobile
> operators usually overstate capabilities of their
> networks (HSDPA access "up to 7.2Mbit/s" and so on).
>
> There was one opinion expressed, that "similar scheme
> works in Finland".
>
> Does anyone know any attempts to regulate access speeds
> this way in Finland or somewhere else, what kind of metrics
> do they build on, and how does this look in practice?
>
> //Marcin
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