The TalkTalk chief executive, Charles Dunstone has estimated that around 100,000 lower income homes in the UK will have to give up their Internet connections due to the 50p per month/£6 per year broadband tax.
The broadband tax was proposed in the Digital Britain report earlier this year and due to last for 7 years with the aim of raising £1 billion to help with the investment of high speed fibre networks across the UK.
He also complained that private investors will also wait for the public handouts of money to invest in the fibre broadband networks in more rural areas as apposed to funding the development themselves.
Stephen Timms, the treasury minister is going to include this tax in this years finance bill meaning there is a good chance that it will be made legal before the next general election. The conservatives are hugely against the plans for the broadband tax, and with the Torries the favourite to come into power at the next general election it may be too late for them to get the plans scrapped.