and even improvement of the encoding of the content

From June 7, the ATT experience will be scrutinized closely by the French operators. They swear their great gods that their networks are foolproof with significant investments, they are also closer to the wall of the mobile Internet. But, after having deployed so many marketing efforts to attract the barge with their unlimited offers three years, they are not ready to put an end to the feast of the "mobi-goinfres". In Bouygues Telecom, for example, it was explained that the question is not "in the agenda of all". Further, the operator has to increase the amount of data that Ideo offer subscribers can use their mobile, from 500 MB to 2 gigabytes. Beyond, the group does not pay a supplement to his client, but shrinks the size of the pipe (so the ability to download) to 128 kilobits per second.

"Offers in abundance."

And all operators are in France, what makes say to Edouard Barreiro, of the UFC - that choose the offers are not made correctly: "in France, the packages are not unlimited, because either flows are downtuned above a certain limit, or the user can download large attachments." "Packages are not real access to the Internet, since services such as peer to peer, voice over IP, even emails are prohibited". Apparently, the telecoms operators are sensitive to criticism, because, in Orange as SFR, it considers more appropriate terms. Will talk of abundance offers be a way to prepare the minds... at the end of unlimited Internet The iPad already allows operators to experiment with pricing to the volume of data: there is not unlimited, but paying refills, for example EUR 10 to 200 megabytes at Orange. From there to the end of the unlimited, there is a step. "These packages are a key to develop uses." "We will be returned not back on the generosity and abundance", explains Guillaume de Lavallade, Director of marketing networks in SFR - launches a new unlimited range at this time. Mobile Internet traffic triple every year since 2007, the launch date of the first package Illimythics, but the operator put in the immediate future on the increase in capacity: acquisition of a new band 3 G, deployment of the "3 G "... and even improvement of the encoding of the content. "Pedagogy, it should be on content publishers", said Guillaume de Lavallade.

Untenable position

However, the position of the French operators who speak investment networks as soon as it referred to the problem of pricing will be untenable in the long term, said a consultant specialized. "SFR and Orange are studying the possibility of using their access points Wi - Fi to swallow the pill of the end of the data packages unlimited", he says: the Wi - Fi connections are free extras. SFR is particularly well-positioned through its network of "box" 2 million open Wi - Fi. The operator also works with a Canadian company, Bridgewater Systems, on the establishment of a counter of data, which is essential to manage the consumption of finer way and allow each monitor its invoice. Unfortunately, SFR and Orange information systems are not ready to welcome this new feature. This will be a long-term project.