Friday, November 28, 2008

France will adjust prices for Internet access.

Soon, the French Government will ask providers charge for Unlimited access to the Internet anywhere in the country less than 35 euros, transmits Reuters, referring to the words of Secretary of State, Prime Minister Eric Besson.
The purpose of government, according to the minister, is connected to the 2010 100 per cent of French channel with a capacity of at least 512 kilobits per second. Two of the largest telecommunications operator France, France Telekom and SFR already agreed by the end of 2009 to include broadband access in their package of universal service.
While not known whether these companies during the implementation of these projects rely on the government, but the Minister has promised at the beginning of 2009 conduct a tender for the provision of broadband services throughout the country.
France will be the first member of the European Union, which directly regulates the offer broadband access services. Previously, the country argued that broadband access has been included in the list of mandatory universal service operators throughout the EU. Currently, access to the network does not have seven percent of EU citizens, one third of them live in rural areas.

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