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Internet charges 'should be lower'

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Internet access charges should be cut to attract more users, a legislator said yesterday.

Cable and Wireless HKT (formerly Hongkong Telecom) charges $0.033 per minute for hooking up to an Internet service provider via its network.

The fee, called a PNETS (public non-exclusive telecommunication service) charge, is fixed by the Telecommunication Authority.

It is paid to Cable and Wireless HKT on top of a service charge levied by the Internet service provider.

The call for a reduction came from information technology legislator Sin Chung-kai, who said Cable and Wireless HKT had made $260 million from the service between July last year and June this year.

The Democrat legislator said the Telecommunication Authority should consider reducing the charge by half.

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