Free is a FrenchInternet Service Provider (ISP), which is a subsidiary of the Iliad Group. It operates in France. An internet service provider (abbr. ...
It was the first company to offer a Triple play service in France through their Freebox modem. It claims to be the first company[1] to have invented the "box" marketing concept in France, in reference to the other ISPs in France who thereafter released Triple play modems named to include the word "box". In telecommunications, the Triple Play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of the three services: high-speed Internet, television (Video on Demand or regular broadcasts) and telephone service over a single broadband connection. ... Freebox The Freebox is an ADSL modem provided by the French internet service provider called Free to its ADSL subscribers. ...
On 2006.09.11, Free announced a new FTTH offer with speed up to 50Mbps for €29.99 a month (instead of the former 28 Mbps DSL offer). Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is a technology that allows Telephone, Cable TV and High Speed Internet to be accessed via one fiber cable. ...
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↑ Communiqué de presse : Nouvelle Freebox HD. Retrieved on 2006-05-03.
For example, ISPs with more than one Point of Presence (PoP) may have separate connections to an upstream ISP at multiple PoPs, or they may be customers of multiple upstream ISPs and have connections to each one at one or more of their PoPs.
ISPs may engage in peering, where multiple ISPs interconnect with one another at a peering point or Internet exchange point (IX), allowing the routing of data between their networks, without charging one another for that data - data that would otherwise have passed through their upstream ISPs, incurring charges from the upstream ISP.
ISPs who require no upstream, and have only customers and/or peers, are called Tier 1 ISPs, indicating their status as ISPs at the top of the Internet hierarchy.
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