Daughter moving to France - random questions

She is being sent to Paris to work for a couple of years. Employer is organising most of the move but:

1 - Any idea how to estimate how much taxe d'habitation she will pay ?She will be renting 60sq meters in the 17th (Ternes).

2 - Is anyone successfully using a VPN ? She basically wants to keep her current Now TV package using the stick.

3 - Best value broadband supplier including enough speed/bandwidth for the above ?

4 - Best value SIM supplier for her to use her existing iphone ?

Thx a lot.

Thanks for that. Sadly the rental will be arranged for her by the relocation agency and she'll see a few flats before deciding on one. I suspect they will have a rough idea so she'll ask.

Cheers.

I thought taxe foncière was for the owner of the flat to pay?

SIM and Broadband wise, use Sosh, not Orange. Same company but online only and cheaper

We’re on ADSL in the middle of nowhere and Netflix and Amazon stream fine. The only issue we get with buffering is with BBC I player and ITV but I think that’s down to the VON. We usually get around 8.5/9 mb on our router.

I've switched the wifi off on our Livebox and use a Tenda mesh system to get through the walls in our place!

Just checked our orange live box. 2mb! Its a wonder I can post this!

This week some of our neighbours had fibre connected. (Hamlet of ten houses) oh guess what?

The cable installers forgot to bring the cable and relevant box up to our corner in the hamlet that should feed four of the houses!

Brewery!! Pissup comes to mind!

Thanks for all the help. 6 weeks after signing with Orange still no internet, whether ADSL or Fibre. It has been a kafkaesque series of cock ups (5 of them so far!) and they still can't explain why or when this will be sorted. I am so glad I don't have to deal with that kind of st anymore. I see that customer centricity still doesn't exist in France

She has told them to stick their box where the sun don't shine. Should she speak to Bouygues instead ? They have a shop 50m from hers in the 9th?

Some years back I bought a mobile phone from Bouygues, I asked if their coverage went as far as my village and they pulled up a map on the pc which showed coverage way beyond us. When I got home the phone could not pick up a signal at all even though we are line of sight to the mast! My wife's phone worked fine on another provider, the replacement phone I bought from another provider worked fine, later on I put a SIM card from another provider into the phone from Bouygues, they had told me to keep that, and it worked fine too. I concluded that Bouygues had an agreement with Orange, who own the mast, which cost them less but took second place to Orange. I've never had an explanation of what was going on but would say, based on that experience, beware of Bouyguestel!!

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