The problem isn't us having to pay up so that we have a decent broadband system that reaches people in rural areas - after all that helps people living in towns as well, since we want to be able to keep in touch with them and with their websites and so forth. It's this arbitrary way of doing it, which is just silly, and means a fair number of the heaviest internet users won't be paying their share, since they've given up having landlines. Or will be prompted to give them up by this