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Originally Posted by jaysay

£6 broadband tax for everyone with a phone to be introduced before next election | Mail Online
Looks like there is going to be a £6 a year tax put on every landline to pay for faster connection speed, are you in favour or against and how will they collect it. To me 50p a month is neither here nor there and if we can all get the faster link then why not

just wait and see a small tax will suddenly creep up to the equivalent of a tv licence fee in a matter of years

we pay BT for the phone line and then pay them or another internet provider for teh internet service , most exchanges can already handle high speed internet and if anything BT should be forced to invest in upgrading those that cant so that everyone can receive the same level of service as each other , somone living close to the exchange can get say a 32mb speed connection where as those living further away can only get 4mb but still have to pay the same

this is just the govenment finally getting around to adding additional tax to teh internet to get out of the hole they have made because lets not forget we already pay tax or vat on the internet we already have because even if you get free internet from sky etc you still pay for it as it is part of a package deal

also dont forget the BBC have tried to get a internet licence fee introduced so dont be surprised to see that raise its ugly head again in the future

labour know they are on teh way out and will probably bring in more unpoular taxes knowing that they wont be around afterwards to get the flak from the public

dont fall for the cr@p about getting faster speeds , faster speeds are already here its just BT refusng to spend any of its billions of proffit in upgrading their equiptment