Translation of "Subscription rental " (English → French) :

(21) As re-balancing could make certain telephone service less affordable in the short term for certain groups of users, Member States may adopt special provisions to soften the impact of re-balancing. In this way, the affordability of the telephone service during the transitional period would be guaranteed while telecommunications operators would still be able to continue their re-balancing process. This is in line with the statement of the Commission concerning the Council resolution on universal service (9), which states that there should be reasonable and affordable prices throughout the territory for initial connection, subscription, periodic rental ...[+++], access and the use of the service.

For new streaming radio and music services, such as Rdio to film and television platforms like Netflix to gaming platforms such as XBox Live Arcade, all of these services are supported by a wide range of behind-the-scenes TPMs These measures not only help prevent illegal copying or unauthorized appropriation of content from these services, and thus provide viable revenue streams for their creators, but also enable a range of value-added features such as rentals, subscriptions or demonstration versions, which would not otherwise be possible.