Bbox fiber: 6 million eligible households from November 2
Bouygues Telecom today announced the imminent launch of the offer “Bbox fiber, which supplements the ADSL service with which he embarked on the fixed market in 2008.
Bouygues Telecom logo
The fiber at once, not without concession
The offer “fiber” of the operator based on the infrastructure FTTB (fiber to the building literally) Numericable, giving it immediate access to 6 million homes. If technology can certainly exploited to separate the Internet from television, unlike ADSL, the notion of “up” is always appropriate, however, since the flow depends on a number of factors.
4 million homes now have an even flow download up to 100 Mbps, the ceiling of the other better at 30 Mbps. In addition, the flow sending capped at 5 Mbps, whereas the FTTH (fiber to the home) promises to revolutionize our use of the Internet by offering a tenfold speed (50 Mbps to Free, optional 100 Mbps at Orange). In practice, the office of Bouygues Telecom, for example, enjoyed the time of the press conference a rate of between 40 and 60 Mbps.
The modem also or the decoder (s) TV nevertheless have the interest to connect the wiring TV antenna already deployed in homes, often in several pieces. They require neither heavy deployment jobs, unlike the FTTH, or installing a computer network between the modem and decoder.
A decoder with TV and media center compatibility 3D, but already obsolete
TV Decoder Bbox front
Cable technology is expected to broadcast multiple streams of high definition high speed, without impacting the speed of Internet connection, and hence without recourse to a compression ratio too destructive. However, the decoder selected by Bouygues offers only output 720p or 1080i, but not true HD 1080p.
Found despite all the essential features of competition, such as direct control or a digital recorder, using an internal hard drive 160 GB function A media center will appear at a later date still unknown benefiting both USB ports.
TV Decoder Bbox back
Two formulas including a quadruple play
The offer “fiber Bbox” including Internet access up to very high-speed 100 Mbps, about a hundred television channels, including a dozen high-definition, as well as unlimited calls to hundreds of international destinations.
It will be available from November 2, especially with “clubs Bouygues Telecom” located in eligible areas. Two options are proposed: one naked, the other associated with a mobile phone package in a bid “ideo all-in-one.
The “fiber Bbox” naked, including the rental of a modem and TV decoder, is 39.90 euros per month. The rental option of one or more additional decoders will be proposed for a rate unknown.
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