Or does it? Not according to may pundits [1], [2], [3], that have reviewed the plans put forward by the supposed Broadband Czar – Stephen Carter. But as he is soon to head off to other pastures – ITV they say, what should he care if the plans fall massively short on substance – par for the course from this tired government again.
With a general election due next year it is unlikely to me that any but the simplest of the plans have any chance of being implemented.
However, I would think that anything to do with monitoring our activity on the net and getting the proposed £6.00 telephone landline tax in place will be two of the higher priorities!
With regards to the £6.00 tax, what about the person that has satellite TV and Mobile phones with no landline, how will they be taxed? Again another unfair and ill thought out proposal.
Where has all the money gone from selling off the radio frequency spectrum frequencies for Mobile communications and other uses? It’s a bit like Car Tax, how much of that tax goes strength into the general government pockets and is not spent of the roads!
Will we ever get to reasonable levels of broadband access in this country found in some overseas countries? I hope so, but it will require a bit more than this report for anything to happen and it will have to be funded the government(s) quickly if we are again not going to fall behind the rest of the world.
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