Not big on Trix?

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed a bill that bans commercials on public television and taxes internet and mobile phone service, reports the International Herald Tribune.

On abolishing advertising on public TV, Sarkozy said channels "could be financed by a tax on advertising revenues of private broadcasters and an infinitesimal tax on the revenues of new means of communication like Internet access or mobile telephony." Private TV channels could also be levied for ad revenue, according to Reuters.

The proposal has yet to become a bill, which must meet approval of both houses of Parliament. But Franck Louvrier, Sarkozy's director of communications, said the President intends "to wrap this up in 2008."