The Government has pledged to provide a minimum speed of 2Mbps (megabits per second) to all UK homes by 2017, to achieve this they will be applying a new tax of 50p a month on phone bills to raise the necessary funds to roll out the superfast broadband nationally, the amount they wish to raise from the tax will be around £175m.
There are some problems however in applying this tax to every home that has a fixed-line phone, not everyone will want or afford to pay this tax, the tax will force more than 3.2 million households, including pensioners, to pay for a service they do not use and have no interest in signing up for.
Many people who do use the internet may end up switching to mobile broadband providers and cancel their land line toget out of paying the tax, mobile broadband has greatly improved since it was introduced, you can also use compare mobile broadband with comparison sites to get some good offers with many companies offering great deals some better than land line based broadband.