French Postal Service to become ISP
La Poste, the French post office and the second largest postal service company in Europe, is to launch its broadband internet products March 17.
At the European level, La Poste is fairly late to the game, as many European postal services already offer broadband internet access in particular, Deutsche Post, with its T-ISDN xxl product range long since having been introduced to the German market.
The state-owned postal company enters a tough and highly competitive market. La Poste will offer high and low broadband (512 Kbits at E44/month and 1024 Kbits at E72/month). More than 13 other intenet providers already offer similar, and sometimes cheaper, ADSL products.
La Poste is launching its service on internet festival day – a nation-wide event to promote the use of new technologies and the internet.
La Poste aims in particular to attract users of its already existing internet products (free e-mail, financial services).
