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Government to Bring Broadband to Rural Areas with Telephone Tax


To help pay for a government plan that would beef up the UK’s communications infrastructure and bring broadband Internet access to all homes by 2012, a 50p telephone tax will be charged to all landlines each month.

The new tax was just of many things discussed in “Digital Britain,” a report presented by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw to the MPs. Bradshaw said the improvements financed by the tax would “accelerate Britain’s recovery from the biggest economic shock the world has seen since the war.”

Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both dismissed the plan, but Britain has a duty to make sure all of its citizens are able to get online. Over the last ten years, web access has transformed from a luxury into a necessity. Broadband in rural areas will benefit education, increase quality of life, and- as Bradshaw said- provide much-needed employment.

Source: The Independent

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