Digital Britain - Tax to fund fast internet access

[Former Member 1]

The problem with the BBC isn't the number of channels they have. It's the amount of money they waste at the top end (and indeed within their processes) in a largely successful effort to move what should be a public service for the many into a cash-cow for the few...

And then there is the trust issue.... Would I MIND paying all the fuel tax I pay if it built roads, ran buses in obscure corners and helped finance research and an infrastructure for alternative fuelling solutions? Not in the least!

Again, we have the same problem; what should be about a public service for the many into a cash-cow for the few...

It's just another imposition on the part of the robber barons...

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

It looks like this tax is about to be scrapped.

Government set to ditch broadband tax - Web User News

 

[stugster]

It looks like this tax is about to be scrapped.

Government set to ditch broadband tax - Web User News

I wonder how much time, money and resources they wasted with yet another stupid idea. I sometimes worry about our country. :crying:

 

[Scottish Business Owner]

Oops looks like it's back on again now

BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband tax 'to be made law'

 

[Baldeagle]

In principal I dont really have any issue with a broadband tax, they will fund the rollout in some way or through some other tax and it is a service that needs to be govt led as any company (BT, Virgin) that is the first to roll out a high speed cable network or invest in enough copper/WiMax to feed the extremities of the UK will be forced to allow other operators access to the network so none of them will do it.

The "third world", mainly Africa primarily still use fixed line services, either running fibre (the method of fibre delivery in South Africa for instance is far more efficient than we will ever have) or using PLC for delivery (Angola, Nigeria and South Africa use this instead of phone lines simply because of the government monopoly on network ownership and delivery (Telcom in SA will only deliver a Maximum of 1Gig per month data download over a 512kb connection for roughly ZAR300 a month).

As a bit of a techie I would be looking at ways of "keeping some of the cream for myself", there will be a £200m pot of cash going somewhere, we may as well get some of it ourselves.

P.S Hi, I'm new here