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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up And it seems the government's final act of legislative indignity before its increasingly likely trouncing in the general election could be to usher through a tax to pay for next-generation broadband. Minister for Digital... [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News The proposed fibre tax to pay for next-gen broadband in the UK could be law before the next general election. Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is... [23 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News This 'phone tax', as Carphone Warehouse has described it, is intended to create a centralised fund for subsidising the rollout of fibre-based, next-generation broadband across most of the country. Junior minister Stephen... [04 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment Even BT has cast doubt on whether the 50p tax on phone lines proposed under the Digital Britain plan will be enough to pay for fibre links needed to bring the UK into the era of superfast broadband. So... [04 Aug 2009]
Is BT's super-fast broadband coming to your neighbourhood?
News BT recently cast doubt on the ability of the 50p tax to bring fibre to 100 per cent of the population, saying it expects to see a fifth of the population without high-speed services. BT has revealed the... [09 Jul 2009]
50p broadband tax 'will leave 20 pc of UK without fibre'
News BT reckons a government plan to put a 50p tax on copper lines in order to fund fibre broadband to the country's hard to get to places can only go so far - and will probably never reach the last fifth of... [02 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News June was a month full of Apple-related news with the launch of the latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, coming at the Mac maker's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). O2 wasted no time in sharing details of the... [02 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.06.09
Round-Up Needless to say, the talk of a 'telephone tax' provoked all manner of carping from those likely to have to spend an extra 50p per month. He also roundly criticised the new fat pipe tax.... [19 Jun 2009]
Critics slam Digital Britain over file-sharers and tax plans
News The satellite revolution happened without a satellite tax," Hunt told Parliament on Wednesday. Everyone recognises that public investment may be necessary to reach more remote parts of the country but simply slapping on... [18 Jun 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News The "final third", however, is likely to be ignored by the market without additional help from the public sector - and a copper tax is Carter's answer. The government has announced plans for a 50p per... [16 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.03.04
Round-Up Nowhere is the skills crisis more of an issue than in IT and the government did little to help the situation this week when the Budget was announced, ignoring calls for greater incentives and tax breaks for companies... [19 Mar 2004]
