Clearly these costs are too high and since 1998 OPT has been promising reductions on them. Cybercentres Cybercentres have sprung up recently. Many companies who just own a computer and a telephone line are offering public internet access. There are probably 200 or more but only about 10 of them have gained much of a public profile. Web access is an add-on.
Subscribers have their own e-mail addresses.
These service providers offer access to a large number of computers. The most developed web access providers offer direct access to the web and customers get a free web-based mail service. They pay between FF10-75 per hour. Access is the bottom end of that scale at night or on Sundays. Competition seems to have driven prices down.