New £6 Phone Line Tax To Fund Super Fast Broadband

Get ready to be stung in the pocket with another tax by the British government. Every household in the UK with phone line could soon be hit with a £6 per year tax to pay for the planned Superfast broadband – also known as 4G.

Gordon Brown claimed that faster internet access was now ‘an essential service as indispensable as electricity, gas and water’. The creation of this new tax follows the publication of the Digital Britain report into the future of internet, television, radio and telephone provision in in the UK.

The document, overseen by outgoing communications minister Lord Carter, also proposed that the BBC should share the licence fee with its commercial rivals – mainly ITV. And from 2013, £6 from every licence fee could be used to pay for programmes such as regional news and children’s shows on other channels, which currently have to fund themselves.

However, it was the plan to charge everyone with a fixed phone line an extra £6 a year that has caused the most controvery amongst commentators. Individuals of all ages – even those who might not even know what ’superfast broadband’ means – will have to find the extra cash every year until 2017.

Over a seven-year period the new tax is expected to raise £1.05bn from the public. The fee will be imposed on operators who will then have to pass it on to there customers in the bill. You will not be able to opt out of the charge, although there will be exemptions for poor households on ’social telephony schemes’ and some charitable organisations – that big of them. Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to try and make Britain the ‘digital capital of the world’, claiming that investment in the IT and communication industries could ‘underpin our emergence from recession to recovery’.

But critics called the broadband tax ‘bizarre’ and said the Government had ‘blundered’ with the ‘invasive’ regulations and higher taxes. While it has been noted that industries such as the internet and mobile communications have been able to flourish in the past without a individual tax on these services. There are also fears that the cost of the plans could spiral (similar to the London 2012), this would mean the British public will have to bail out the scheme if it fall into trouble – sounds familiar and very likely. The Conservatives believe that even with the new tax there will be a £ 2.5bn shortfall in funding of superfast internet across the UK.

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More People Are Signing Up For Mobile Broadband

From checking e-mails to status updating on social networking sites, more people are looking to go online while they are on the move these days. And this seems to be a trend that will continue to grow, with people now working more on the move and more people owning and purchase laptops and more advanced mobile phone device.

Peter Rampling, marketing director at mobile operator O2 UK, said the increasing take-up of fixed internet over the years had been a big influence. “There is a natural progression, people now want to use it when they are out and about,” he said.

More laptop users were signing up for mobile broadband which took advantage of 3G mobile phone networks. After paying a monthly subscription, a dongle or USB modem can be used to access the net wirelessly on a laptop.

But Steven Hartley, senior analyst at market research firm Ovum, said the performance of fixed versus mobile broadband was like comparing “apples and oranges”. He said that mobile broadband speeds “vary dramatically”, and could reach a “theoretical maximum” of 7.2 megabits per second (Mbps). “Be aware that a lot of these theoretical speeds involve you standing in a flat field directly in line with a tower and nobody else around,” Mr Hartley said.

Despite the flexibility of mobile broadband, the service is dependent on coverage. Also, there are limits to the amount of data users are permitted to upload and download.

Many services offer a data allowance of around 3GB a month which is sufficient for web browsing and e-mailing – but it is not ideal for downloading video. “More people doing more bandwidth hungry stuff means that performance across the whole network will drop,” warned Mr Rampling.

In many remote parts of the world, mobile broadband is the only way for people to get online to economic or infrastructure of the conutry. “The cost of digging up roads, installing cables, cabinets and exchanges is far more expensive then putting in cell towers that can serve a very wide area,” said Mr Hartley. He said that a mobile broadband service was “more than adequate” in places without the necessary infrastructure. He also stated that we should expect the number of people using wireless connections to increase in coming years – in particular, with the creation of networks built around fourth generation, or 4G, technology.

An alternative, and rival, is a technology called Wimax – this could improve performance thanks to its ability to provide wireless transmission of data over several kilometres. “Some of the 4G technologies and LTE, or long term evolution,… are going to allow a theoretical maximum of about 100Mbps,” said Mr Hartley.

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