UKNM: RIP Minitel

[Philippe Blasco]

Dear list members,


I have read some messages about the french Minutel.


The real name of this France Telecom product is : Minitel :)


It was an interesting marketing tool a few years ago.


1 : Minitel machine is free


2 : But conections are not, based on a minute fee : from 1,23 FF to 10 FF

and more !


3 : And the funny thing :

Each content provider receives half of the money resulting from their

connections. Yes that s true, everytime somebody is connecting to your

server, you are earning money.


4 : This is the reason why France is so slow to jump into the Internet. But

it is changing faster and faster. French users are more than a million now.

The biggest companies run their own WWW site.


Greetings from France


Philippe BLasco



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