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Listed below are comments made by sonnysasha between Wednesday, 17th June 2009 and Wednesday, 17th June 2009.

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Can Digital Britain top the league? 11:03am on 17 Jun 2009
Piracy: Did someone blink? 10:50am on 17 Jun 2009
It is unfair to tax every landline in the UK £0.50p per month it is just another stealth tax after the government has failed to do its job.

Most people are saying this is not enough and when this proves to be the case they will up the tax to several pounds to cover the cost.

It means if you do not want or use broadband you will be subsidising the other areas.

Secondly the government has made a fortune out of the sale of BT, G3 licences and various other sales of radio licences etc. Pocketed large dividends from BT for years being one of the largest shareholders without insisting BT invest in updating its old infrastructure. (Now they want the tax payer to pick up the bill)

BT for years refused to allow other providers access to its exchanges, BT also did not embrace the current broadband technology which I think is ADSL and Fibre but insisted on trying to use some other form of satellite technology that was slower and much more expensive for years. When the rest of Europe was already using ADSL.

Why should we pick up the bill. It will also cost council/business tens of thousands of pounds. I work for a small NHS provider and I have counted 500 separate phone lines thats another £3000 for one small NHS provide.

Also why cant we use the sewer system like other countries to role out fibre much cheaper.

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