Poland provider Netia features as the cheapest, at USD PPP 54, with its offer Paketi M (Internet + TV), which includes a 600Mbps fixed broadband service + home phone and TV pack M with 160+ channels. Next cheapest is Vodafone Hungary, at USD PPP 67 with its Vodafone Home premium offer, which includes 1000Mbps fixed broadband speed + home phone and 115 TV channels. Third cheapest is SFR France, with its Fibre Power de SFR offer which includes FBB at a speed of 2048Mbps + home phone and TV with 200+ HD channels at USD PPP 71.
At the upper end, the three most expensive countries are Estonia (USD PPP 272) – most expensive with a BYO offering from Telia, Magenta from Austria, at USD PPP 225, and Lyse from Norway, at USD PPP 198. The average cost across all countries for this triple play Medium-High basket is USD PPP 138.
Figure 2, shows the results providers in France for the Medium High Fixed Broadband, Fixed Voice and Mobile voice and data basket. where the minimum speed requirement is 250 Mbps for fixed broadband, fixed voice usage is 60 calls per month and the Mobile Voice and data requirement is for 100 calls and 10GB.
Figure 2: OECD Bundled Communication Price Benchmarking, Country Focus on France for Triple play (FBB-FV-MVD) medium-high use basket
Source: OECD Bundled Communication Price Benchmarking, H1 2021, Strategy Analytics Ltd
The cheapest provider for this basket is “Free” at just under USD PPP 59, with a triple play offering which includes unlimited FBB at 1 Gbps speed, fixed voice, TV and the option to add an unlimited voice and data mobile plan; Following is a double play offer from Bouygues, Bbox Fit at USD PPP 64, includes a 300Mbps broadband speed also with the option to add mobile voice and data. In third place is Orange France, with a quadruple play offer which includes 2Gbps speed, unlimited fixed voice, TV service, 2 hours mobile voice plus 5GB mobile data, at just under USD PPP 69. The most expensive provider in France for this basket is SFR, with its Fibre Power de SFR a triple play offering with a 2 Gbps Fixed Broadband speed at USD PPP 83.
The average cost across all countries for this triple play Medium-High basket is USD PPP 97, with “Free” France the second cheapest provider, just below Italian Fastweb at USD PPP47.
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[1] Note: The OECD Bundled Communication Service baskets covers double to quadruple play, across fixed broadband, fixed voice, mobile voice and data, and pay TV, however, the system also includes additional data on bundles including mobile broadband (dongle-based mobile data).