Tax burden makes 'Broadband Britain' uncompetitive for most

The UK government's strategy to roll out superfast broadband across the country could be undermined by a “distorting tax regime which will make it hard for other operators to compete with BT”.

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Now 'up' the ISP limits !

mikewhit | | Permalink

At 50 megabits per second, it doesn't take an accountant to work out how long it will take a maxed-out connection to reach a current typical ISP monthly download allowance of 50 gigabytes !

OK, (50 x 1000 M x 8) ÷ (50 M) = 8,000 seconds, ie. 2 hours 13 minutes, round up to 3 hours.

So let's hope we get correspondingly higher limits when we get the higher speeds.