50Mbps Home Broadband for 30 Euros per month
Neuf Cegetel in France has just started offering 50 Mbps fibre optic broadband connections for about 30 Euros (approximately 54 NZD/49 AUD/20 GBP/40 USD). Sweet.
I’ve just moved house and looking to move broadband providers and the best I can get is still the old HDSL. If I’m lucky, I might get 10Mbps downstream connection for roughly the same money. I know prices have come down over the years but it is still a very underwhelming offering out there. There are virtually no new technological options in the last 8 years, apart from some wireless providers that just don’t work (Woosh).
I do have a Vodafone Vodem and connection to their 3G network and was considering if I could just have this at home, however, the connect/disconnect thing still feels too much like going back to dial up (which it is effectively) and it is not that easy to share the connection with other computers.
As compelling as Neuf Cegetel’s offering is, I don’t think it will make me move to France, but I do hope that other countries will follow suit soon. I’m going to give Xnet a try as it has been highly recommended to me by a few people now.
We’re not doing too badly, spare a thought for the poor broadband deprived people of India who are still paying about $500 USD per month for home broadband limited to about 256K.
Thanks to the all-knowing GigaOM for the Neuf Cegetel story.