Finding parcel services online will still be the cheapest way to source a courier, after it was announced the UK government have scrapped plans to impose a 50 pence per month tax on broadband usage.

The law has failed to pass through Parliament due to it being dissolved because of the general election, held in May.

The tax had been intended to raise 175 million pounds a year from 2011, in order to allow the majority of the British Isles to have next generation internet made available to them, by 2017.

Consumers and many industry groups had been opposed to the broadband tax, and the Tories say they intended to banish the scheme should they gain power in May.

However this does leave in question just how high speed broadband will be accessible to UK residents by 2017, without the funding.