First, I want to appologize to right this article in english because it is turned more specifically toward french people -even though it can be interesting for americans to know that. I just wanted to compare the French and US internet access. I was coming to Moutain View believing I would be able to use the google free wi fi, or have cheap access to the high speed Internet. But even in the heart of the silicon valley, between mozilla, google, symantec and HP, the Internet is not at his top.
In fact, the google wifi barely use (I have been able to connect myself only once even though I am working at less than a mile than the google headquarters. In New York, no free wifi in Macdonalds, you have to use prepaid cards to connect via the wifi. And the Internet plan costs $29.99 by itself, whereas in France for this price you have the Internet, some satelitte channels, and the internet for free in france and some of the biggest country in the world (US, China, Germany...). I paid $79 for the phone access and the Internet, and we never used the phone to call outside the town we live in.
About the speed, in France Free propose the Internet with 26mb/s, in the US at&t, 6 mb/s....
I think we can consider that France is pretty lucky about its network, which is cheap and good quality.
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ReplyDeleteJe pensait que leur internet etait plus rapide que ça, et surtout qu'il y avait des hotspot gratuit à NYC :|
Je comptait là dessus pour blogger pendant ma semaine là bas.
Faut dire, on peut reconnaitre une qualitée à la France: Etre l'un des pays au top en matiere d'internet!
pas cher, fiable (sauf chez certains operateurs) et accompagné de pleins de services!
Merci pour le commentaire, et puis bonne chance pour Oswego, tu sais, je suis toujours là si tu as besoin d'aide, ou si tu veux passer en Californie.
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