The Internet box less than 30 euros per month will disappear in 2011

The offer "triple play" was initiated in 2002 by the ISP Free. Avec the VAT hike, which will apply early 2011 subscription box on the Internet, offers "triple play" combination of phone, Internet and television to less than 30 euros per month will disappear. So far, half of the bill offers "triple play" was subject to VAT at 19.6% and the other half at a reduced rate of 5.5% in exchange for a supplier of access to funds to support the cinema.


It must now apply the full rate of 19.6%. After a formal notice from the European Commission estimated that television accounted for only a third of the bills of subscribers, France has decided to implement VAT at 19.6% on the entire bill, which enable the State to recover nearly $ 1.1 billion extra.

To cope with this increase in VAT, the main providers (ISPs) have all announced increases in their rates. In early December, the Orange group, representing 49.5% market share of ADSL in France, according to recent statistics, has announced that it pass from February 1, the increase in registered tax in the 2011 budget, with a rate increase of up to 3 euros per month on tenders covering television services.

The second French ISP, SFR, Vivendi group, then said it would apply, also on February 1, increases from two to three euros on its Internet subscriptions up to 9.50 euros on some mobile phone subscriptions. THE END OF A "Diktat" ACCORDING NUMÉRICABLEFree, who imposed the standard of less than 30 euros in 2002 by launching its Freebox, prompting other operators to match, has also withdrawn.

Free [whose founder, Xavier Niel, is a shareholder of the group Tech Buzz News] said he would keep a basic rate of 29.99 Euros for its box, but that its subscribers will pay 1.99 euro a month extra if they wish to continue receiving her bouquet Freebox TV channel, far included in the package.

Its new Revolution box also cost 5.99 euros more in case of full unbundling or fiber access. Bouygues Telecom, meanwhile, said it would transfer the VAT hike on its packages from March. Customers will be notified one month in advance, by mail, "according to law." But VAT is not the only reason for inflation for the customer.

"We believe that the dictates of 29.90 euros does not make sense", while other operators create offers up to 35 or 36 euros "with additions that are not related to the VAT hike," asserts a spokesman Numéricable. The French cable operator, the majority of bids are unaffected by the VAT hike, also announced it would increase its rates by 3 euros on average from August.

Faced with these price increases, UFC-Que Choisir has lamented that "the operators have used a tax scheme for a spread that was never redistributed to consumers." A multitude of packages and mobile TV without service received a VAT at 5.5% initially reserved for triple play offers, "explains the association.

The association also asked the government to "make sure that this measure does not allow slippage in prices." The Minister of the digital economy, Eric Besson, has also requested written clarification to the operators on how they intend to pass on the VAT hike their rates. But if customers are paying more for their Internet access, this unilateral revision of tariff conditions also gives them the right to terminate their subscription packages and some mobile internet while keeping their phone, within four months.

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