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France’s Bouygues Telecom Announces 1Gbps Fiber, TV, Phone Package for $35/Month

Phillip Dampier June 26, 2014 Broadband Speed, Competition, Consumer News 1 Comment

173x116_Logo-BT_WSCustomers of Paris-based Bouygues Telecom in some of France’s largest cities will soon have access to 400Mbps fiber to the home broadband (with an upgrade to 1Gbps later this year), as well as a television and phone package that combined will cost $35.43 a month.

The company’s new fiber offer commences June 30 and comes as a result of fierce competition for the French broadband customer.

Bbox Sensation Fiber is available from both fiber to the home and fiber to the building connections throughout urban areas in France, including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse and Bordeaux.

Fiber continues to gradually replace older copper-base wire networks in France. But unlike in North America, European telephone companies believe their future isn’t only in selling wireless. Upgrading those networks to fiber to the home service allow companies to sell bundled packages of phone, wireless, television and broadband Internet access.

Bouygues Telecom’s fiber to the home network now reaches 3.3 million French homes with more to come. Its older fiber to the neighborhood network reaches another 5 million customers.

Customers who sign up for the fiber to the home service by the end of August will get two months free

Here are the details:

macgpic-1402559468-29638698693873-sc-opBbox Sensation Fiber (first phase) includes:

Internet

  • 400Mbps service with upgrade to 1Gbps by the end of this year;
  • 50GB cloud storage

Television

  • Up to 170 TV channels, including 29 HD channels
  • DVR with 300GB storage
  • Bbox Video on Demand: Thousands of multilingual titles available in HD and DTS
  • Bbox Games: Over 50 multiplayer video games accessible on the network at any one time
  • Multi-Screen: Watch on portable devices

Telephone

  • Unlimited calls to mobiles in France and the French commonwealth, U.S.A., Canada, China, Singapore and South Korea;
  • Unlimited calls to fixed landlines in 120 countries.

Availability

This fiber offer available in Paris, Lyon, Villeurbanne, Marseille, Toulouse, Nice, Bordeaux, Issy les Moulineaux, Boulogne Billancourt, Courbevoie, Aubervilliers, Charenton le Pont, Saint Maurice, Alfortville, Maisons Alfort, Neuilly sur Seine, Puteaux, Chatillon Montrouge Vanves Malakoff, Levallois-Perret, Cergy Saint-Cloud, Garches, Palaiseau, Antony, Clamart, Rueil Malmaison, and Sèvres.

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political_i
political_i
9 years ago

Does anyone know how TV in France works? I’m guessing there isn’t retransmission fees involved.

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