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Other News: Small ISPs fuming over changes to fibre tax

Small internet service providers (ISPs) hoping for wholesale changes to the way fibre deployments are taxed have reacted angrily to new rateable values issued by the Valuation Office Agency (VAO).

ISPs were hoping that costs would be reduced or removed altogether, but the Revised Valuation Guidance for Telecommunications Networks will make it more expensive to deploy fibre, undermining the government's pledge to make the UK a leading broadband nation by 2015.

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