new internet tax

only 2mb line? Thats hardly high speed now is it? I'm currently paying for 8meg line and get 1.5 due to my location. I was hoping it would be more like 10meg or even higher.

Will that be a 2mb line or upto 2mb line?
 
Availability of broadband has two components: the right network today and the right network tomorrow. To ensure all can access and benefit from the network of today, we confirm our intention to deliver the Universal Service Broadband Commitment at 2Mbps by 2012. This can be delivered through upgrades to the existing copper and wireless networks. We also propose public
support for the network of tomorrow so that consumers in the Final Third who will not be reached by the market can enjoy next generation
broadband. This will be a longer project which involves what amounts to installing a new network.
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Steeps said:
I never did business studies at school, but surely the whole point of charging the customer for a service is to provide said service, line your own pocket and create capital for future upgrades to keep the business going. So why do we need to be taxed ontop of a service we already pay for and most of us get?
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How much of the environmental tax (ie passenger tax for airports) dubbed as environmental tax actually goes to environmental policies? Google it try to find out....

http://news.cheapflights.co.uk/flights/2007/02/double_air_pass.html



Have fun trying to find an answer anywhere.

People bleat on about the EU but at least they are trying in the EC to be totally tansparent as to what they spend the money on. Unlike the Uk who introduce tax via spin and then never say anything more about it hoping no one asks.

Under the freedom of information act we should all be asking our governments what they spent the money on, and did they spend it on what they said they would.

That's our responsibility not governments.
 
Seeing as it's quite a minimal figure involved and it could be useful for economic structure if we want to have a high tech economy, I don't mind it as long as:

a) It stays at the figure quoted
b) It is actually used for the purpose intended

Not likely on either count though I guess.

Old Wino said:
A piffling amount introduced by stealth
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Hardly stealth, it's been banded around for ages and announced openly.
 
One of the reasons that the gov' want to get involved in the internet, via tax etc, is so that they then will have a legal obligation to monitor all internet usage. IE, Emails downloads of music movies and games, etc.

If we tax it, we have to monitor it, so that we can justify it, BIG Brother at work.
 
jumpy said:
Digital capital of the world? So we're going to exceed S. Korea's 100mb service that is the average over there are we? We'll become that good eh?

'No family or business misses out' ...damn right, we can't have the people of britain missing out on paying yet another tax :rolleyes: 'cause that's not what this government is about...

As mentioned, why don't they scrap ID cards as no one wants them anyway? Better yet, help fund the next generation BB service with all the money mp's will have to pay back in fiddled expenses.
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LOL this is what I thought. These MPs are in cloud cuckoo land when it comes to remaining in touch with reality. Next they will be telling us, "Great news we have just come across this amazing thing called the internal combustion engine. You can make a ton of metal move at 30 miles per hour.....s'amazin!!!!"
 
Doesn't surprise me to be honest, governments are always looking for new ways to milk their serfs.

I haven't read much into it but what if you have cable and get rid of your landline? you still have to pay?
 
my line is particularly crap. 50p a month for a possible line that can handle more than 2mb?

i don't see the problem.

but then again i can see where the anger comes from...i mean in theory you lot with awesome connections already would be paying for my half decent one.
 
I can't get channel five tv because their distribution is crap.

It's about time we sorted things like this out first.

Don't bother with that we have a new tax, it's called the internet.

******g W*****s
 
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