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"en.20031118.3.2-108"2
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"The liberalisation of the telecommunications sector has led to the most serious crisis in its history. The policy of widespread privatisation, which is a direct consequence of opting for deregulation and enforced competition, has led to appalling debts on the part of the operators which seek new market shares at any cost whatsoever and construct parallel and competing networks, such as mobile networks, in a questionable waste of resources. This situation is accompanied, let it be remembered, by huge job losses and the jeopardising of any notion of public service. The report presented to the House by Mr Clegg comes out in favour of taking an additional step in this same direction. I cannot but vote against it.
Another policy is needed, based on the satisfaction of social needs. Telecommunications must be defended as a public service, necessitating state supervision of the policy applied and of the choice of operators. We defend the following principles: low rates for the services most used by the majority of the population; free services for the poorest people; blanket geographical cover by high-turnover mobile and Internet networks in a public service framework; and, finally, equipping developing countries on the basis of fair and equal relations between nations."@en1
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