Anonymous

UK

Semi-retired consultant

Why is Internet access so important?
We managed when we did not have it.
Employees would possibly become more productive without it, until the scenario below happens.
With reference to the car. If Alistair Darling has his way with the 'spies in vehicles' countrywide charging scheme, everyone will be priced off the road. Business will grind to a halt, the country will grind to a halt, etc.
A moderate user at 10,000 miles per annum would fact a bill at £1.50 per mile of something in the region of £15,000. So as all service infrastructure collapses Internet usage will seem of little consequence to a country without, power, water, gas, fuel, emergency services, hospitals, etc.
As usual nobody has thought through the full implications of this latest of their control freak zealot schemes.