Originally Posted by
Saab Dastard
As I understand it, we (in the UK) will all shortly be paying a £6 a year "telephone tax" to provide "second class citizens" in rural areas with a spiffing high speed broadband connection.
Indeed we will.
BUT those rural hangers-on will have to pay about three times as much for their broadband as the city-dwellers under the Market 1 / Market 2 / Market 3 pricing rules. I know, cos I pay the "BT monopoly on the wires" higher price up in Norfolk.
Net net, the £6 a year for each landline is another tax - a drop in the ocean towards Gordon's vast and rapidly growing overdraft.