schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFrance plans internet tax of 5.5 cents per gigabytewww.heise.deexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down149 cross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
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minus-squareRamRabbit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·1 day agoWhat a comically bad idea. That tax is 1) going to just be a drag on everything IT, and 2) that is a higher tax than bandwidth costs, by a pretty good margin.
minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agobandwidth at the scale of a large isp costs one to a few pennies per megabit/sec per month to deliver. you can download about 325 gigabytes in a month with 1 megabit/sec speed.
What a comically bad idea.
That tax is 1) going to just be a drag on everything IT, and 2) that is a higher tax than bandwidth costs, by a pretty good margin.
bandwidth at the scale of a large isp costs one to a few pennies per megabit/sec per month to deliver.
you can download about 325 gigabytes in a month with 1 megabit/sec speed.