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2.5Gb/s Internet For French Homes

Erick Lionheart at www.gamersloot.net writes "Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are offering 2.5 Gb/s Internet connections to select cities in the Paris region. For ... $85(70 Euros) a month you also get free phone and TV. From the article (in French): 'The historical operator opted for a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) FTTH architecture (Fiber To The Home). This technology allows up to 2.5 Gbits/s download and 1.2 Gigabits/s upload.'"

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  1. That's a lot of Jerry Lewis movies by bobalu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    By the way, if you want to understand whey they like him check out "Mr. Hulot's Holiday" by Jacques Tati, 1953.

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  2. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! by xtracto · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    s/horny/hairy/
    Haha, that is what I tought too, but after I met a french girl and we talked about that I saw that, similarly to the hype that they smell bad, it is just that, hype. As she told me, it is usually the elder the ones that continue with the "traditions", she told me of some time that she met a person from USA who looked under ther arm to see if she had hair, she was so amazed because this guy tought it was true.

    Now, the one thing I know for sure is that they are arrogant and very funny (they get offended very easly hahaha), I have a french friend over here, once I told him some comment about how the French language was not as important as English or Spanish and whoa his head almost exploded.

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  3. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell, in France you might actually score some real sex.

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  4. Re:Damn it by ThePengwin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Caue u got the bombs :P and thats all they want :P

  5. Re:they could upload there whole culture by straybullets · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    sure . and if you're nice they'll teach you there gramar too .

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  6. Re:You mean? by jakarta-milwaukee · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Didn't ancient civs (Romans, etc) actually improve their quality of life and infrastructure by going to war and conquering other nations? Also, isn't France on the list of top 10 military spenders?

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  7. Re:Define "free"? by elrous0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What are you, a terrorist? Consider yourself reported, citizen!

    -Eric

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  8. Re:True Story by easter1916 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good post, ObsessiveMathFreak... just wanted to mention that the population of "l'Hexagon" is in fact around the 60 million mark, though.

  9. Re:Sweet Mother of Potatoes! by Plammox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't forget their beloved French cars. The Renault Vel Satis is probably the biggest overly-designed eye-turd of a car currently in existence. Ugly and reliable like a Hizbollah rocket.

  10. Re:You mean? by 955301 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean like air conditioners?

    *ducks*

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  11. The article... by nastybastard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The article is in Freedom. I can't read freedom!

  12. Re:You mean? by houghi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't even need to go that far back. They were in the first Gulf war as well.

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  13. Re:You mean? by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    nice political troll. france telecom is a private company. doesn't really have anything to do with government policies. telcos in the US could do the same thing.