BT Says 50p Monthly Broadband Tax Not enough

BT has notified that a proposed monthly levy of 50p on phone landlines will not be sufficient to rollout fibre optic broadband across the entire UK. Addressing a meeting organised to discuss the next phase of fibre-optic rollout, Olivia Garfield, strategy and portfolio group director for BT, asserted that the tax, proposed in the Digital Britain Report published last month, would perhaps not be enough to deliver fibre optic network throughout the country. Incidentally,...