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Consumers also pay high taxes for telecommunication services, averaging about 13 percent on some telecom services, similar to the tax rate on tobacco and alcohol, Mehlman said. One tax on telecom service has remained in place since the 1898 Spanish-American War, when few U.S. residents had telephones, he noted.
"We think it's a mistake to treat telecom like a luxury and tax it like a sin," he said.
from: The internet could run out of capacity in two years
comments:
- I bet this will turn into a great excuse for your next president not to invest on health, but rather on internet. --ana
- Humm.. I think it is meant to be more of a wake-up call to the backhaul and ISP companies, which own most of the networking capacity (not the government). I imagine there will be some problems, people complain, it gets fixed.. hopefully soon. What is really amazing is the total amount of data the internet is expected to produce - 161 exabytes!! -- tlh
- They won't upgrade their capacity. After all, the telcos spent a lot of money doing just that in the dot-bomb days. No, instead they will spend their money on technologies and laws that allow them to charge more for certain types of packets or for delivering some packets faster than others. You think it's a coincidence that Google is buying up dark fiber? --jeo
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