Is France going to take a less polluting digital shift? In an online article, West France dissects two separate reports – one from the National Digital Council (CNNum) and the other from the Senate – inclined to end unlimited phone plans.
Go back to “limited consumption packages”
The objective: to reduce the environmental impact of the digital consumption of the French. In this sense, CNNum wants to “encourage low-consumption plans, including landlines“.
Otherwise, an information report of senators, made on behalf of the Committee on Regional Planning and Sustainable Development, thinks of “prevent mobile plans with unlimited data access as a preventive measure“. As well as “make mandatory pricing proportional to the data volume of the package“, is it written in the document of 223 pages. Proposals which would undoubtedly result in the increase of the prices of the packages.
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This information mission thus wishes “make digital users aware of its environmental impact“by improving knowledge on a subject”still too little documented“and”too little known to the general public“. Digital being qualified”blind spot“of”environmental and climate policies“.
A reflection initiated as 5G knocks on consumers’ doors and promises ever more energy-intensive use of connected devices and their operator packages.
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