Proposed Broadband Tax Flayed by FSB
The FSB (Federation of Small Businesses), a prominent lobby group has put forward bitter criticism against the 50 pence a month internet broadband tax proposal on all fixed-phone lines in the United Kingdom, by the Labour government supposedly to fund the rollout of a next generation superfast fibre broadband network in the United Kingdom.
According to the lobby group’s claims the plan of the government to tax every fixed-phone lines in the country was very much likely to backfire as the broadband requirements of the United Kingdom was ideally served by the private broadband sector.
The organization also commented that telecoms companies were left with no other option but investing in the next-generation fibre optic broadband technology if they wished to carry on enjoying customer loyalty, which pointed to an important fact that developing new networks using public funding was unnecessary.
The argument of the small business federation was clear. This referred to a state where small business firms need not have to pay for a broadband service that could rather be encouraged by exposing the market to increased competition from UK broadband providers. The organization added that the private broadband sector should be pressed to adopt advanced fibre-optic technology to attract customers.
It is also interesting to see that the comments of the FSB stood in line with the views of Jeremy Hunt, the Shadow Culture Secretary, who commented this week that the 50p broadband levy would be totally scrapped by a Conservative government.
