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FRENCH TELEMATICS: HISTORY, POLICY AND PROJECTS
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Telematics dates from 1978 when it was used to designate the growing overlap between computers and telecommunications. The initial phase was the provision of an electronic substitute for the telephone directory. The free distribution of Minitels was followed by the Teletel 3 V experiment which gave a test population access to a wide range of services. A special billing system had to be developed. Telematics has been extended to the industrial world and business relations.
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Simon Nora et Alain Mine, L'informatisation de la société, La Documentation Française, 1978.
Marie Marchand-Larousse, La grande aventure du Minitel, 1987.
See ‘Prospective et Telecom’, Revue, No. 7, December 1985; M. Pondaert, P. Georgiades and A. Magnier, Communiquer par Teletel, La Documentation Française, 1983.
There exists, however, an exception since July 1987: the telephone kiosk service enables the telephone user to send a message to people carrying electronic paging units.
An important political debate took place in the press and French parliament in 1987. Special tarification and dispositions to protect minors have been taken recently.
Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Menaces sur l'ordinateur, Le Seuil, 1986.