Alternatively, the French government's attachment to the natively developed Minitel may have slowed the adoption of the Internet in France; there were still 810,000 terminals in the country in 2012, and in the 1990s there was a peak of nine million terminals.
另一方面，法国政府对本地开发的Minitel的追捧可能减缓法国在互联网上的应用；在2012年，全国仍有81万个终端，而1990年代是终端数量的顶峰。