RE: UKNM: RIP Minitel

[Bradley Crooks]

Apologies about the speeling - that was my fault. "U" and "I" are next to

each other on the keyboard.....


Yes, things are changing fast now in France and the fact that people are

used to using Minitel will help the speed of penetration considerably not

detract from it.


The really interesting point from a UK/international perspective of course

is how hard it is to break into the French market - it is very insular. This

is not restricted to the Internet and many International companies have had

to 'go into' France on partnership deals with French companies to be

successful.


Bradley

Business Development Director

Foresight New Media


-----Original Message-----

From:

ownerchinwag [dot] com

 [

ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On

 Behalf Of Philippe

Blasco

Sent: 22 September 1998 22:37

To:

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Subject: UKNM: RIP Minitel



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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