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Last edited by Tarka Dal; 26 Mar 2010 at 04:22.
Last edited by Tarka Dal; 26 Mar 2010 at 04:22.
Careful boys or this thread will end up breaking the forum rules, discussing politics isn't allowed.
In this thread you find several Americans complaining about a slow connection and the lack of alternatives.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) statistics* from last summer shows USA with 26.7% is only 15th when measured broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
United Kingdom 'beats' USA being on 13th place with 28.9%. Even my tiny native Finland (9th, 29.7%) and adopted home country Germany (11th, 29.3%) beat USA.
Kari
* = see XLS-sheet 1d
So that makes me bad? since It is what makes me different from the good people? Just trying to understand or If I am reading it wrong.From Previous post cut it out takes up much space
I think that's what differentiates people like yourselves from the few good people in life. Sad isn't it!
Look at it this way:-
You take your car to the petrol station, you put £50 worth of fuel in your car but when you come to pay the assistant says you must pay a £5 surcharge to pay some of the cost of the guy on pump 2's fuel as he lives further away from the petrol station than you.
Is that fair? No, and neither is the broadband tax.
Sorry I was off topic with my reply really but just responding to a couple of posts in this tread who were opposed to the healthcare bill in usa.
As for paying someone else's bill well I kinda agree with you but I also think circumstance play's a role too.
As I said before I just think this has very little to do with computers on poor people's tables and free broadband for the masses.
It's all about economics and politics. A fiscal stimulus for Britain's IT & Telecoms businesses and improving Britain's perception as a nation "on the net" and ready for business.
It's not party political either. The other parties have said they would do similar things.
It makes good economic sense because it's very much cheaper than helping out major manufacturing industries and we can get some EU money for it making it even cheaper.
Plus the perceived payback in terms of the way internal and international business' view Britain is potentially good for such a small amount spent.
Also, at the end of the day this is a direct tax.
They have tried to make it more positive and perhaps more acceptable by tying it in with computers etc, making it sexy.
If they just said we're putting tax up by 50p people would complain. As far as I'm aware this is not "ring fenced" for IT so it could be used for any other thing the government wants at a later date.
Incidently when we're in the petrol station putting £50 of fuel in our cars a majority of that £50 is tax.
That's spent on a zillion things a lot of which neither of us would agree with.
If there's another guy on mobility allowance in there we might not just be filling his car up for him.
You and me (and others) might have bought him the car in the first place
I would not trust the government or any part of it with our money. They will take the 50 pence and I will say that less than half will go to sorting out the broadband for all question.
Form a start, how will they give it out, who will get money from that fund, how much will they get,
Think its another rip off myself.