Your persona is almostly certainly still in there (unless you were naughty enough to get blotted). The Telecom Gold gateway was way better than the Prestel one

Your persona is almostly certainly still in there (unless you were naughty enough to get blotted). The Telecom Gold gateway was way better than the Prestel one; more gome users on the Prestel (Micronet) side though. What killed both Prestel - and the BT interest in Minitel - was the bad press they were getting for their premium rate business. So BT decided to 'de-emphasise' all the non-core business by treating the paying customers like sh!t; sort of bounced off the Shades players though, so eventually they did have to just shut it all down.