RE: [ILUG] Re: ADSL in France

From: Stephane Dudzinski (stephane at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Tue 09 Oct 2001 - 08:08:14 IST


There are not only good sides in France (but the internet is definitly
one of them ;)

Steph

On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 22:13, Satelle, StevenX wrote:
> Stop teasing me!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: john.allen at domain online.ie [mailto:john.allen at domain online.ie]
> Sent: 08 October 2001 19:18
> To: ilug at domain linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: ADSL in France
>
> Niall O Broin wrote:
>
> > Fresh from that call to Eircom, I asked a colleague in France what ADSL
> > costs him (and I sent that mail to the list - sorry :-( ) and here's his
> > reply:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Let's be nasty. I just received the France Telecom invoice this
> >>Morning, so I give here *real* prices (VAT included):
> >>- Installation (non-recurrent) : 46.11 EUR
> >>- Monthly fee (line + Internet + Ethernet modem): 49.54 EUR
> >>
> >>Let's be nastier: its 512k down, 128k up, and ... there is no cap.
> >>
> >
> > For thos who don't remember, here are the figures for Eircom's cheapest
> > offering - same rates, but a 3GB monthly cap.
> >
> >
> >>Connection fee EUR 150 inc. VAT
> >>Monthly fee is EUR 118.80 inc. VAT
> >>ADSL USB modem EUR 174 inc. VAT
> >>ADSL Ethernet modem EUR 240 inc. VAT
> >>
>
>
> An associate in the US (runs Gentoo Linux) pays just over $100
> a month for Business Class (A)DSL 640k/384k with no cap, and
> domain regitratation with unlimited hostnames, and 16 static
> ip addresses.
>
> What the f*ck are we doing living in this godforsaken country.
>
>
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