The plans of UK government was quashed and it has to abandon its plan to introduce 50p a month tax on every telephone line in the country. This tax was to be used as a fund to invest in the UK broadband sector. The UK government was pushing for the bill hoping to raise £170 million a year from this disputed bill.

This Digital Economy Bill has been a controversial topic ever since its inception and a lot of amendments was made by the UK government before placing the bill in the Parliament. The broadband is becoming a hot topic of discussion in the political shim sham and it will surely become a vote winner or loser in the coming elections.

But as of now, the bill has been abandoned by the government, it will be really interesting to know that from where the UK government will arrange for the funding in this sector. As therte are other significant costs as well to expand it and making it a superfast one. The real question now is that if taxpayers will again foot the bill?