Re: Bitrate tax.

[Herman Van Uytven <]

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996 08:56:13 +0200 you said:
>> The Belgian Minister for Telecommunications came up with the idea
>> of introducing a "bitrate tax" on information transmission.
No panic.  The Telecom Minister of the Dutch speaking part of Belgium
replied that he could not agree because the Dutch speaking part
of Belgium seems to consume more bits than the French speaking part
of Belgium, so a tax that would flow to the 'country' is unacceptable.

-Herman-