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Originally Posted by Chris
The money that is raised with this levy will be spent on bringing the minimum data speed up to 2 meg on those lines that cannot already support it. In essence, a lot of money being spent in a few poorly-served, mostly rural locations around the UK. Your cash is going to upgrade my phone line. That may sound unfair, but it is simply what happens with every penny of tax you pay. It is spent where and when it's needed, and it is not needed anywhere on the Virgin network, as that network is already capable of far in excess of 2 meg.
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This levy is not, in any way, related to the 2Mbit USC. It's to increase availability of 'super fast' broadband services. VM and BT between them will offer the 'next generation' services to about 60% of the population, this tax is there to increase that to 90%.
Putting it another way it's highly likely this will do precisely nothing for you Chris, it being targetted at those semi-rural areas that aren't urban enough to have cable or be viable for BT's NGA upgrades and those rural areas close-ish to urban areas.
Northern Ireland are doing some stuff. Chances are that last 10% will need to do it themselves with local authority support.