Yay! Another new tax! Internet tax this time!

[Papa_Hotel]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8102756.stm

fk this, I rarely use my phone line anyway, I get a zillion free minutes with my mobile so that does the trick. Wireless broadband, it's the future.

[Jasandjules]

Scum that they are.

[Nolar Dog]

I don't have a landline and haven't had for years.

Mobile broadband is here to stay.

What does the "Changed role for Channel 4" amount to I wonder though?

[V8mate]

Another thread running in Computers.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Neither in News

[GTO Scott]

Time to kick the landline into touch and go wireless then.

To Winky and Co: Leave what little of my money I don't already give to you alone. It's mine, i've worked for it, so keep your thieving socialist one-eyed st-stained mitts off it.

Edited by GTO Scott on Tuesday 16th June 19:22

[crofty1984]

Thank fk. I was worried that I might have to keep some of my own money. Luckily Gordon's taken it.

[Jasandjules]

crofty1984 said:

Thank fk. I was worried that I might have to keep some of my own money. Luckily Gordon's taken it.

He's certainly working on it.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Is this where we are taxed to pay for something private companies should be investing in, then once we have paid for it the lines will be given over to private companies so they can charge us to use what we paid for?

[GTO Scott]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Is this where we are taxed to pay for something private companies should be investing in, then once we have paid for it the lines will be given over to private companies so they can charge us to use what we paid for?

Precisely so.

s. Utter s.

[Los Palmas 7]

Nolar Dog said:

What does the "Changed role for Channel 4" amount to I wonder though?

From what I've heard, they're considering extending the benefactors of the licence fee to include other terrestrial channels.

[Nolar Dog]

crofty1984 said:

Thank fk. I was worried that I might have to keep some of my own money.

[V8mate]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Is this where we are taxed to pay for something private companies should be investing in, then once we have paid for it the lines will be given over to private companies so they can charge us to use what we paid for?

Exactly.

It's just that satellite dishes and cable TV were never Govt policy. As soon as it becomes policy, a new tax pops up to pay for it.

[thinfourth2]

So 50p per month per phoneline

Lets guess how much it will cost to administrate and pay for all those extra government non jobs


50p per month per phoneline

[eldar]

thinfourth2 said:

So 50p per month per phoneline

Lets guess how much it will cost to administrate and pay for all those extra government non jobs


50p per month per phoneline

Optimist.

At least £4, so the 50p will soon rise....

[DrTre]

This amounts to nothing more than a tax on wking.

And I for one am not going to stand for it.

Edited by DrTre on Tuesday 16th June 21:42

[philthy]

If legislation preventing BT from cherry picking, when it was sold off, had been put in place, this new "tax" would be unnecessary.

Fantastic thing, opening comms to a "free" market.

[Nolar Dog]

Los Palmas 7 said:

Nolar Dog said:

What does the "Changed role for Channel 4" amount to I wonder though?

From what I've heard, they're considering extending the benefactors of the licence fee to include other terrestrial channels.

Thanks for that.

[PJ S]

linked article on BBC said:

"It is a contribution which we are asking people to make - it's six pounds a year - offset, as we make very clear in the report, by the likely continued reduction in headline prices because of the competitive market we have in this country," said report author Lord Carter.

So, asking or forcing?
If asking, then my response is "fk off!"
If forcing it upon me, then my response is "I don't fking think so!"

As above, it's incumbent upon the providers to provide the service in those areas where the uptake doesn't pay the outlay, so those of us in urban areas are likely to be already subsidising the rural areas.

[ridds]

gamefreaks said:

ridds said:

Hmmm, does it apply to wireless?

If not I'll be ditching my Virgin BB and getting a wireless dongle.

Up yours guberment.

Err...i'm getting this funny feeling you're missing something...

What's that then?

theregister said:

A tax of 50p a month will be levied on every fixed line connection

I ditch the fixed cable connection and buy a wireless dongle. Don;t pay the tax and potentially save a bit of money on my current rip connection.

Or am I missing something, happens quite regularly....

[Puggit]

Ahhh well - time to cancel the BT subscription and move the interweb back to Virgin