Miskin IT News

Alistair Darling has put forward plans to introduce a tax on UK broadband users. The tax likely to be 50p a month with pay for ‘advances’ in broadband technology and ‘super-fast’ broadband to be installed into all homes by 2017.

There are concerns that this tax won’t actually benefit broadband users. Experts agree that the tax is too low to have any real benefit, prompting speculation that this low figure will rise considerably in coming years, no doubt blaming growing internet crime and safety as a factor. There is also an issue that the private sector may be unwilling to finance future development if the government can be pressured into doing it.

With most major broadband companies making over £1 billion profit annually is it right that the government and the populace pay the bill? It’s likely that BT’s control of the phone lines  is more of a restraint to internet speeds. France are considered to have far better broadband nationally than the UK mainly due to France Telecoms opening of their high speed ducts allowing for ISPs to lay their own cabling, providing rural areas with greater speeds.