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Why the French are ahead in broadband; will free mobile calls for ads work
7Feb2008 Filed under: Advertising, Business models, Current events, Technology, Wireless Author: Esme VosThe French don’t just have better food and clothes, they have faster, cheaper broadband too. In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month! Want to know how they got there? The French regulator comes down very hard on France Telecom (read here).
How’s Blyk (the free-mobile-calls-for-ads) doing? Not bad. Will this business model fly? Here’s my take on it.
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