Could broadband tax force users off the net

The subject of the Digital Britain report and what it will achieve is hardly out of the news these days, but it seems that coming up with the ideas and actually delivering them are two completely different stories.

One leader in the industry, Charles Dunstone, has gone so far as to say that the proposed broadband tax could force up to a hundred thousand households off the internet, which would seem to defeat the object of broadband for all.

The theory behind these claims is that while the broadband tax will help with the rollout of next gen broadband, it is the richer people that are willing to pay for these services while the poorer households will not.

Yet every fixed phone line in the UK will have to pay the broadband tax, regardless of income and circumstances.

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