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"We obviously voted against this report, the sole justification for which is to admonish those governments that are not quick enough in applying their own decisions to liquidate public telecommunications services in order to open this sector still wider to competition and the race for profit.
The rapporteur goes into raptures about bringing the benefits of competition into the sector concerned. These so-called benefits are past or future job losses, the threat to salaries and working conditions, widespread job insecurity in companies – such as France Télécom in France – that are in the process of being privatised, and the risk of massive redundancies in private companies engaged in a ruthless trade war.
There may be a wider range of choice for users, but only for those clients capable of paying. Telephone boxes are being done away with in very many places where they are not profitable but are needed more than elsewhere. The telephone is becoming less accessible or else more expensive, penalising those in social classes with the most modest incomes who most need this service, particularly elderly people.
Opposed as we are to the privatisation of public telecommunications services, we reject this report and the social decline to which it contributes."@en1
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