So shall we buy everyone a nice new shiny computer as well?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 09:15AM ;)
So I picked up CITY A.M. this morning and read that the government is contemplating a £6 a year tax for everyone with a phone line to pay for for universal broadband access. While universal broadband would be great should consumers not pay for their own services? Broadband is not a utility, it is a service.
Gordon Brown claimed that faster internet access was 'an essential service as indispensable as electricity, gas and water'. Is it? Is it really? Surely without water we die of thirst, without gas and electricity we get cold and can't cook, but without superfast broadband we can't access YouTube. So Shall We Buy Everyone A Nice New Shiny Computer As Well? What is the point of this super fast crazy Internet speediness if you do not have a computer to access it?
Broadband, Digital Britain, Gordon Brown in Business