WiFi bigwig in Estonia would turn Internet service free of charge nationwide
14.07.2008, 15:21Veljo Haamer, the editor of the portal
wifi.ee and WiFi initiator in Estonia would like to turn the Internet
service free of charge all over the country.
Haamer told portimees.ee that the free Internet would be a welfare service
that would assure access to information and would give opportunities to
communicate with relatives-friends far away.
According to Haamer’s idea, the service providers would assure the access to
public Internet at the speed of 128 kbits. For cutting the security risks, the
person should have to identify himself before using the Internet, he added.
The mandatory identifying would allow to keep account of the users and in
case needed fixing who and when used the service.
Haamer said that the state should support such activity by subsidizing
companies’ expenses according to the number of users.
Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication said that mainly
operators could be interested in such service and the state should not interfere
significantly.
Remo Tiigirand from the Estonian largest telecommunication and IT company
Elion said they were not interested in financing such
project.