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Originally Posted by yorkshireborn
too rite its unfair if your not happy with your speed then u pay BT for your line to be upgraded why should we have to pay.
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For the same reason as I could be paying to put your kids through school even after mine have left. Same reason as I'm paying for the man down the street to have false teeth fitted on the NHS. Collectively, as a nation, we decide that certain services are important enough for everyone to have access to them regardless of ability to pay. If you had to pay the entire cost of the services you use, as and when you use them, you would be faced with some very unpleasant bills.
The parts of the UK that do not already have 2 meg ADSL broadband, do not have it because it is very expensive to do in those parts. Thus, everyone pays something to subsidise the effort. There is nothing unusual or controversial about this.
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i dont see this as a goverment helping the have not's in the internet world i see it as the goverment finding another way of taxing us to pay for their bank bailout fiasco.
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Right. Some inspired political commentary there.
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how is £6 a year from every house that has a fixed line going to help thats no where near enough
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OK. Can we see your calculations please?
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plus if it was to be true the goverment wouldn't give the full £6 towards the fund they would prob give £4 of it to the fund.
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How do you know this?