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"en.20001026.2.4-057"2
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"We are voting against this report even if it does seem a mere formality in the process of the liberalisation of telecommunications. The amendments add nothing, apart from some further praise for the alleged virtues of competitiveness. What ‘unbundled access to the local loop’ actually does is force public operators to put the leasing of public telephone lines out to commercial tender as soon as possible. So 20 to 30% of the contracts will again be offered to private competition.
Many have already anticipated this directive, like France Telecom. As well as the new constraints imposed on staff, particularly in the commercial services sector, inequality in the treatment of users is going to get worse. The regulation of the sector by the law of maximum return will result in the creation of profitable and less profitable areas in the territory covered. A high quality European public service must be imposed, to include mobiles phones and the Internet, to meet the basic needs of employees and users. That policy would put a stop to the generalised liberalism that is thriving under the French Presidency."@en1
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