New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout

[wraggster]

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA), which compiles and maintains business rating and council tax valuation lists for England and Wales, is reportedly getting ready to impose business rates (tax) upon UK wireless networks regardless of their status. The move has raised concern because many community driven wireless broadband (Wi-Fi , WiMAX) ISPs, which often exist in locations where the big players have failed to deliver adequate services (remote and rural areas), operate off some already very thin margins

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/...ternet-Rollout

[Darksaviour69]

lists for England and Wales

Some times in nice being in N.Ireland