The Finnish Government's national broadband strategy is to promote competition in and between all communications networks, to improve service and content provision in networks, to increase broadband demand and to continue and improve the special measures in fields with no adequate demand for commercial broadband supply.

On 29 January 2004 the Government adopted a resolution on the national broadband strategy that included a 50-point action plan. On 3 February 2005 it adopted a new resolution specifying the objectives of the strategy and complementing the original resolution with 9 new action points. These included the following: the development of wireless broadband will be promoted; new content and services will be promoted; and the yet existing obstacles to competition will be removed.

The broadband working group has monitored the implementation of the strategy and gives an account of it in this final report. The report also includes a summary of the measures taken under every action point. The aims of the original broadband strategy have been achieved. According to the strategy Finland should have 1,000,000 broadband subscriptions by the end of 2005. In January 2007 the number already amounted to 1,500,000. Broadband services through a fixed network, which were to be available to at least 95% of the population, were in January 2007 available to 96.1%. The third aim, which was to maintain Finland's position among the four European leaders in the number of subscriptions, has also been achieved as in January 2007 Finland ranked third.

The national broadband strategy has been successful in increasing the number of broadband subscriptions, lowering the prices and improving the regional availability of broadband services. The strategy's aim to promote competition in and between all communications networks has turned out to
be a good guideline for communications networks policy. The implementation of the strategy has clearly proved competition to be a feasible method for ensuring affordable and high-quality services for end users.