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MPs moan about broadband tax
A PLAN to charge the good citizens of Blighty 50p per month to help fund ultra-fast broadband has been slammed as being rather "unfair" by a very cross cross-party group of MPs.
The Business Innovation and Skills Committee said most of those who would pay the tax, which is to fall on those who have fixed phone lines, would not benefit from the faster broadband service.
The committee said that the focus should be on providing basic broadband for all and allowing markets to deliver higher speeds.
While trotting out all the usual things about how broadband will bring peace in our time and how faster speeds will lead to a cure for cancer, the committee was short on ideas about how to pay for it.
However it was certain that the 50p levy was not the way to go. We would have thought a quick whip round in the pub was a better solution. µ
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So what exactly is the "story" here? Govt is going to TAX you to show you how much GOOD it can do with YOUR money. They are obviously so much smarter than you, so you should simply trust their judgment and hail them as heros for doing what they do. What would YOU waste YOUR money on? Alcohol? Drugs?
The mobile network providers will be the principle beneficiaries here, as HM government ups the incentive to give up the old landline.
This new 'tax' is just as dodgy as the BBC TV License. Just another reason to print money for some fat cats somewhere.
Call me rude, but if already pay for 50mb cable connection, and I have a fixed phone line, I now have to contribute MORE money so that some farmer on the edge of the country can get 1-2mb for him/her to play Farmville on Facebook? BALLS to that!
thats right....make us pay for a super fast broadband infra structure...then when the temptation of all that bandwidth just gets too much and we indulge in a little file shareing you cut us off.
I wonder how much money will be wasted with this broadband tax. For years BT has been forced to open up its network to other operators, maybe its about time they were allowed to use other networks too. Taking a walk down my road, there are already conduits for "cable" tv that has never been upgrade for broadband (and according to Virgin Media there are no plans to), these pipes could easily be used to run fireoptics to homes at much reduced cost than digging up the streets but because they arent BT owned probably wont be used. There are other towns in indentical situations where the past "speed to lay cable" for TV meant that the cable wasnt suitable for highspeed internet and hasnt been upgrade but infrastructure there ready to be used.
I have been reading the Inquirer for many a year. It is now just an advert webpage. Virtually the whole page is full of advertising.
Beyond a joke imho.
There used to be lots of stories. The news on this webpage has seriously depleted compared to old standards.
I will now remove The Inquirer from my bookmarks.
Way to go Inquirer, turn a decent website into shite.