Comments on: British broadband tax could take effect within months http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2009/09/23/british-broadband-tax-could-take-effect-within-months/ Technology news Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:29:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Akers http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/09/23/british-broadband-tax-could-take-effect-within-months/comment-page-1/#comment-213161 Akers Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:36:37 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2009/09/23/british-broadband-tax-could-take-effect-within-months/#comment-213161 If they are going to charge £6 for an internet connection, they should be investing in the phone network for everybody. I live 2 miles away from my nearest telephone exchange and can only get a connection speed of 2MBps - which isn't too quick these days. Everything is becoming more bandwidth intensive and yet I can't speed up my internet any more. And we usually have at least 2 PCs trying to stream media. They should not invest in providing an internet connection for rural areas and I'll tell you why: WiMax is just around the corner. This is an option which has not been well explored, and I think it could work out cheaper to provide equipment to use a WiMax connection in the next few years. Let's face it - whatever they put in place now which involves building better cable lines will take years to complete, whereas the WiMax transition is likely to come in the same period or before. It may work out to be more expensive, but I don't think it has been explored sufficiently. And I know this sounds selfish, but on the grounds the majority of people are going to receive absolutely no benefit of a 'minimum of 2MBps' connection, why should we all pay for the minority to have a better connection? If they are going to charge £6 for an internet connection, they should be investing in the phone network for everybody. I live 2 miles away from my nearest telephone exchange and can only get a connection speed of 2MBps – which isn’t too quick these days. Everything is becoming more bandwidth intensive and yet I can’t speed up my internet any more. And we usually have at least 2 PCs trying to stream media.

They should not invest in providing an internet connection for rural areas and I’ll tell you why: WiMax is just around the corner. This is an option which has not been well explored, and I think it could work out cheaper to provide equipment to use a WiMax connection in the next few years. Let’s face it – whatever they put in place now which involves building better cable lines will take years to complete, whereas the WiMax transition is likely to come in the same period or before. It may work out to be more expensive, but I don’t think it has been explored sufficiently.

And I know this sounds selfish, but on the grounds the majority of people are going to receive absolutely no benefit of a ‘minimum of 2MBps’ connection, why should we all pay for the minority to have a better connection?

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