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Broadband Tax (landline duty) abolished

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kat:
Yep can confirm, got a letter about this the other day. BT are increasing line rental (and other) charges from Oct by £0.50 pence a month. I think TalkTalk are also doing the same. Hardly coincidental after the Gov decided to drop the scheme. Cell/Mobile phones don't get off the hook either as it was recent;y announced that providers would be charging users for net access based on bandwidth (iirc). So Net access may be being indirectly taxed anyway.

ratty redemption [RIP]:
kat, are these companies definitely handing over that extra income to the government or just keeping it for them selves? either way not good imo.

kat:
That.. is the $6 million dollar question. ;)

ratty redemption [RIP]:
hehe ;)

kat:
Two interesting articles in PC Pro (UK) today wortha read;

* UK ISP's to charge per-device usage
* Who is really behind the Broadband Stakeholder Group code of practiceAs a lot of the users comments point out, we're already paying for 'level-of-service' usage as most ISPs have 'bandwidth' based packages already (BT has Option 1, 2 and 3). It seems the industry is trying  justify profit gains that wouldn't require them to actually address the fundamental issue over the old decaying infrastructure (phone lines).

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