Bye-bye Unlimited Broadband Internet?
The days of cheap, unrestricted broadband Internet access in France may soon be over as revenue-hungry telecoms operators get together to squeeze domestic consumers. According to two separate reports major telecom operators are discussing an end to unlimited broadband Internet access for French home users. The latest report is on the Rue 89 website and warns bluntly “prepare [...]
Homage to Minitel – RIP Petite Boîte Marron
After 30 years of clunky yet uniquely profitable operation, France Telecom, the former state monopoly, has thrown the switch and darkened Minitel screens across the nation. France’s telematics pioneer which preceded America’s now global Internet has conceded defeat for the commercial operation of videotext technology that when it first appeared in 1980 was rightly hailed as a [...]
