{"id":2250,"date":"2006-03-28T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2006-03-28T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:08:33","slug":"surfing_faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB114351413029509718-W1Q0hKioxsOdZ1Bs_6RCB7hQiBg_20070328.html?mod=hpp_free_today\">Leila Abboud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For years, France&#8217;s telecommunications industry was a state-owned monopoly with one of the world&#8217;s most backward broadband markets. But thanks to deregulation six years ago, French consumers have access to high-speed Internet service that is much faster and cheaper than in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>One telecom company in particular has exploited the changes and created competition in France &#8212; a start-up called Iliad. Over 1.1 million French subscribers pay as low as &euro;29.99 ($36) monthly for a &#8220;triple play&#8221; package called Free that includes 81 TV channels, unlimited phone calls within France and to 14 countries, and high-speed Internet. The least expensive comparable package from most cable and phone operators in the U.S. is more than $90, although more TV channels are generally included.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leila Abboud: For years, France&#8217;s telecommunications industry was a state-owned monopoly with one of the world&#8217;s most backward broadband markets. But thanks to deregulation six years ago, French consumers have access to high-speed Internet service that is much faster and cheaper than in the U.S. One telecom company in particular has exploited the changes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}