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The government is going to screw £6 a year out of everyone with a fixed phone line as a tax to improve broadband coverage in the UK:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8270772.stm
The tax will be imposed on anyone with "a fixed line telephone", irrespective or whether they already have broadband and even if they live in an area without broadband coverage.
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Hi AndyBaxman...
> The tax will be imposed on anyone with "a fixed line
> telephone", irrespective or whether they already
> have broadband and even if they live in an area
> without broadband coverage.
Well the banking w*nkers need their bonuses and what
better way to pay them, through taxes on the poor
who have no broadband at all...
I`ve still yet to find out what is Value Added on the
Petrol_price_AND_TAX + VAT...
Am I missing summat; could someone enlighten me?
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The stupid thing is, I have 2 phone lines and 8+Mbps broadband but won't be subject to this tax while some poor sap with a crap rural line and no broadband will.
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In my other mag that i get they were having ago at this tax. Apparently even if they got £6 from everybody in the uk it wouldn't even be like a quarter of what they need to upgrade the bandwidths.
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| bobthebob1234 wrote: | | In my other mag that i get they were having ago at this tax. Apparently even if they got £6 from everybody in the uk it wouldn't even be like a quarter of what they need to upgrade the bandwidths. |
At the moment.
The 50p levy is quite obviously pointless. Its obviously set at that level so people won't complain (I mean we can all afford 50p a month, can't we?). But once in place it can, and almost certainly will, be raised to a more practical level.
Even then, assuming they remain in power, you can bet that Brown and his muppets will find a better use for the money than providing broadband for farmers (digging us out of the huge pile of financial shit Mr Brown has dumped the country into).
Still, not having a fixed line, I won't have to pay it 
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I don't have a BT line but no doubt I will still have to pay. My line is through Virgin Media.
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| LeeNukes wrote: | | I don't have a BT line but no doubt I will still have to pay. My line is through Virgin Media. |
Its any "Fixed" line, so cable counts, and you will pay.
I'm on Wireless (WiMax), so I don't
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steal his bandwidths!!
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So you'll be able to use up your "unlimited" quota twice as fast 
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| nelz wrote: | | So you'll be able to use up your "unlimited" quota twice as fast |
I doubt I'll get through this quota, I didn't on my 20Mb
I did manage to download Championship Manager 2010 at 2.2MB a second. Which was nice.
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Hi AndyBaxman...
> Even then, assuming they remain in power,
> you can bet that Brown and his muppets
> will find a better use for the money than
> providing broadband for farmers (digging
> us out of the huge pile of financial shit
> Mr Brown has dumped the country into).
You are showing your political bias here...
Before you think we are in the shit take a look
at the real perpetraters of the international
crime and their economic state:-
http://zfacts.com/p/461.html
Lord help us...
These are staggering numbers by any standards...
Just because you don`t like Brown he is not
to blame for another nation`s "misdemeanour"...
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| Bazza wrote: |
You are showing your political bias here... |
But not as much as you are, it would seem.
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Hi AndyBaxman...
> But not as much as you are, it would seem.
I`m curious, from my two uploads on this thread
where does my political bias point?
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Can someone enlighten me about this 'broadband tax', please?
Am I expected to pay this tax so huge PLC's can expand their business?
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