France ISP offers $40 triple play

Iliad, France's third-largest broadband player, is offering a bundle of broadband, VoIP and IPTV, for around $40 a month, according to DSL Reports. The offer is notable not just for price, but for speed--100 Mbps upload/50 Mbps download.

France would appear to be awash in fiber-to-the-home. Iliad competitors France Telecom offers 100 Mbps for around $60, while Neuf has a 50 Mbps up/down triple play for around $40. DSL notes the following figures: 2.6 million homes have IPTV service; 52 percent of broadband connections have VoIP.

Comcast charges the typical $99 price for a triple play in the United States. The broadband portion, "with PowerBoost," gets "blazing download speeds up to 12 Mbps," the Comcast boilerplate states. Sadly, for U.S. broadband customers, that indeed is "blazing." 

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