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UK to Implement Broadband Tax

Millions of households in UK will be paying a "broadband tax" in order to fund increase and improvement of broadband access in the country according to the Digital Britain white paper launched yesterday. BBC today reports: "One of the biggest surprises in the Digital Britain report was the news that everyone with a fixed line telephone would pay a broadband tax. At 50p a month the amount is unlikely to break the bank but experts are already questioning what it will buy."

Related Links:
Experts Question UK Broadband Tax BBC, Jun.17.2009
£6 Tax on Telephones to Pay for Fast Broadband Access The Independent, Jun.17.2009

Related topics: Broadband, Policy & Regulation, Telecom

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What it will buy is iPlayer. Brett Glass  –  Jun 18, 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Right now, broadband users in the UK can get the BBC's programming for free, without buying a "TV license," via iPlayer. And the BBC needs to compensate ISPs for iPlayer, because it takes their bandwidth to distribute programs. So, it is only fair that there be a surcharge.

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