BT reckons (认为)it is incongruous(不一致的) that the levy only applies to fixed-line phones even though mobile phone companies and other businesses that want to use wireless solutions can bid for the cash for next-generation networks.
Carter proposed the new broadband tax because there is little chance of the market being able to make an economic case for pushing fibre-optic(光纤) networks and other super-fast broadband services beyond about 60% of the population. With the Treasury unwilling to make any money available from general taxation(税收), the telephone levy aims to plug the funding gap.
BT has already announced plans to invest 1.5bn over the next three years on a super-fast network but it will only reach four of every 10 homes. Virgin Media, meanwhile, is already offering broadband at 50Mb a second – the sort of speed expected from next-generation networks – but it covers only about half of the country.
Gilthorpe's comments, at a Westminster Media Forum debate on Digital Britain, came as BT announced that it is speeding up the rollout(首次展示) of its next-generation network.
Having originally planned to have about half a million homes connected by next March, it yesterday said it would have 1.5m homes connected by next summer. By the end of this summer Virgin Media will have completed its next-generation network plan, putting its 50Mb a second service within reach of 12.5m homes.
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