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Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"

  • From: Fergie
  • Date: Tue Oct 10 10:49:48 2006

Is it April 1st already?  :-)

- ferg



-- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:

.. because they provide internet over fiber optic cables, which work by
sending
pulses of light down the cable to push packets ..

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/10/stories/2006101012450400.htm

So they get slapped with tax + penalties of INR 241.8 million.


[snip]


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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