France - Incredible Internet, Phone, TV Package Deals (Just for Comparison)

wfdTamar on 06/06/2018 - 19:56

Having a holiday in France and had a look at the equivalent of Telstra just to see what Internet and phone costs are here. Boy howdy.

Basic - $35 unlimited 100/100 Mbps fibre, phone unlimited to national landlines, TV (160 channels), 6 months audiobooks service, 10Gb cloud storage.

https://boutique.orange.fr/internet/offres-fibre/zen

Fanciest - $57 unlimited 500/200 Mbps fibre, unlimited phone to fixed & mobile nationally (& mobiles in USA, Canada, Europe), Spam call filtering!, TV (160 channels with 450Gb recorder, 6 months audiobooks, Security software (Kaspersky) for 5 devices, 4G backup connection, 1Tb home file storage with cloud access, 100 Gb cloud space.

There's a mid level plan too. Fascinating what greater populations density can get you. 300 kmph trains, good roads, very cheap real estate.

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Comments

  • altomic on 06/06/2018 - 20:11
    +9

    I'm happy our with 10/5 Mbps, 110km/h highways, over priced housing, and murderous animals

    • wfdTamar on 06/06/2018 - 20:13

      Wouldn't you love that spam call filtering though? C'mon Telstra!

      • coxjon on 06/06/2018 - 20:58

        Or c'mon Apple and let me block all "Unknown Number"s! (not sure if Google can do this)

        • Hybroid on 07/06/2018 - 11:55

          You can. Create a contact called 'No Caller ID' or 'Unknown Caller' or whatever you usually get. Use 000-000-0000 for their number and add to block list. Sorted.

  • CyberMurning on 06/06/2018 - 20:23

    The World knows Australia is so slow in tech already. All those bastards at NBN just taking money do nothing everyday at work.

    • wfdTamar on 06/06/2018 - 20:34
      +2

      I think it’s more that Australians couldn’t see the point of paying for FTTP at the election that decided the matter. Now a few short years later when everyone wants their Netflix etc, the chooks are coming home to roost.

      Admittedly we are probably one of the hardest countries to wire up given the size and low population density.

      • norrisrules on 07/06/2018 - 11:50

        The problem is there are 1000 issues that are decided with your 1 vote and you so whilst people might have wanted to vote for FTTP, there might have been a more pressing issue that required their 1 vote. One of the biggest problems I have with people saying "you should have voted for the other guy" :) That and the fact that you vote for them and then they end up doing the opposite (eg maternity leave changes)

  • rgr on 06/06/2018 - 20:49
    +5

    Th population density argument is a red herring, that is used by NBN (and the libs) to make excuses for why it can't provide fast, modern, future-proof networking infrastructure in australia. They could've rolled out the NBN using full fibre in the CBD areas for businesses first and then re-invest the funds into scaling the roll out.

    • dcep on 06/06/2018 - 21:44
      +2

      yet, tpg continues to expand their fttb network throughout cbd resi towers

    • afoveht on 07/06/2018 - 01:30

      True not just for nbn but roads and many other services. We don't need to connect Erldunda, how about just starting with the 3 biggest cities and those inbetween- that's 3/4 of us covered in less than the size of a mid-sized European country.

    • DarkOz on 07/06/2018 - 08:26

      South Korea has the fastest average internet connection speed in the world in 2017. I think it has a rather high population density and it is definitely full of gamers.

  • nahi11 on 06/06/2018 - 20:51
    +5

    Yeah but you;d have to live with the French.

  • whooah1979 on 06/06/2018 - 21:55
    +1

    https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu…

    https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/france/australi…

    australia is overall a better country to live in based on statistics.

  • RiseAndRuin on 06/06/2018 - 23:51
    +1

    not sure what is so fantastic about those offers. ISPs like fastweb in Italy have been offering much better for much less e.g. 1Gbps unlimited internet + unlimited national landline calls currently at 29.95Euro (~$45) a month.

    also, until September 15th, they have a special offer for 1Gbps, landline calls + sky channels for 20,90€ (~$32) a month

    http://www.fastweb.it/

    • wfdTamar on 07/06/2018 - 01:45
      +1

      Well, I’m comparing it to Australia obviously. Which was not to say other places did not have ev3n better deals.

      • RiseAndRuin on 07/06/2018 - 21:09

        well the title is misleading then, it reads "Incredible Deals" :D

        • wfdTamar on 08/06/2018 - 01:47

          Well, you’re welcome to refer to what you found as ‘really incredible’.

  • EightImmortals on 07/06/2018 - 07:24

    The good news is I was reading an article this morning explaining how our internet prices are going to go up even more. Not to improve the network mind oyu (c'mon, this is Australia after all) but to 'make NBNco 'financial'. Yay for us.

  • DarkOz on 07/06/2018 - 08:19

    Where can I buy this and is shipping free?

    • wfdTamar on 07/06/2018 - 14:37
      +1

      I was looking at mobile deals and Free mobile have a cheap one that amongst other perks allows 25Gb when your in foreign climes (including Australia). I thought this would be cheaper than getting an Australian SIM, but I couldn't find out what network it was with and you might get all kinds of weird diversions of calls.

      http://mobile.free.fr

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