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 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 September 2005 the number already amounted to app. 1,100,000. In addition, high-speed telecommunication services are available for 95.3% of the population. The third aim, which was to maintain Finland's position as one of the European leaders in the use and availability of telecommunications connections, has also been achieved.

The policy principles of the broadband strategy have proven to be successful and should be maintained as such. In the future it is elementary to promote the development of the next generation networks.