Broadband tax on the way?

[darren-b]

This tax is nonsense to begin with. They say the money is needed to build the next generation internet, but if they simply mandated private industry did the upgrades by 2020, then the companies would simply increase their prices to cover their costs...

And the taxpayer could stay out of it.. Only those of us using the internet would pay for the upgrades.

But the truth is, the 50p tax is just the start. Given a few years it would be a good £5... easy

That isn't going to work, when even now Virgin Media aren't even in a position to enable all of the main town and cities, nevermind all the tiny villages in the middle of nowhere.

I don't necessarily support the idea, but when currently ~65% of the UK households have broadband internet it starts to make little difference where you fund it from.