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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications ： ウィキペディア英語版 Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) was a United Kingdom political pressure group that operated between 1998 and 2001. CUT campaigned for a fairer choice of telecommunications tariffs for consumers—in particular, unmetered local telephone calls that the organisation said would allow the "full potential" of the Internet to be realised. CUT pressured telecommunications operators, regulatory bodies and Government. The campaign was cited as "a major driving force"〔 behind the introduction of unmetered Internet access in the United Kingdom. ==Background== Before the introduction of broadband Internet to the telecommunications market, access to the Internet was most commonly achieved through a dial-up connection that limited speeds to a bitrate of less than 56 kilobits per second. In the 1990s, telecommunications companies in Europe and the United States offered "local call" telephone numbers for this purpose. In Europe, these calls were usually billed based on the length of time a user was connected, whereas US companies offered free local calls for a flat rate fee. As a result, Internet use in the UK was at a much lower rate than in the US; the differing billing strategies meant that US consumers could afford to stay connected for longer periods than their UK counterparts, who had to ration their use of the Internet to avoid large phone bills. This in turn held back the growth of e-commerce and Internet gaming in the UK. In January 1998, the European Union had opened to telecommunications competition, but by the end of the year costs still remained high, and little movement had been made on the provision of unmetered Internet access. In Spain, former state operator Telefónica de España was forced to reduce costs after protests from users, and Germany's former state operator, Deutsche Telekom, was reported to the European Commission by AOL for perceived anti-competitive pricing.〔 Marketing analysts supported the view that metered access stifled economic growth; Jupiter Communications reported that European e-commerce generated only 3% of the revenue of that generated in the US in 1998. The International Data Corporation reported that approximately 10% of the population of Europe was active on the web in 1998–1999, and that approximately 11% of these bought products or services via the web in the last three months of 1998. AOL was one of the few companies that supported a similar business model in Europe as it did in the US, whereas companies such as British Telecom (BT) claimed that offering unmetered local calls was not cost-effective.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.