Broadband Internet Access

France

In metropolitan France, intense competition between internet service providers has led to to the introduction of moderately-priced high speed ADSL (up to 20 Mbit/s for 30€ per month), often including other services such as unlimited free VoIP telephone communications to land lines, and digital television. Conventional dial-up Internet is increasingly considered as outdated. In the third quarter of 2003, the number of broadband subscribers (ADSL or cable) was estimated to about 5 million, out of 24 million Internet users.