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Good deals for home and mobile
Free, Orange’s Sosh and SFR’s Red have eye-catching deals for smartphones and TV
THIS weekend could be the moment to switch your mobile or home internet provider.
Sosh - the low cost subsidiary of Orange - has a reimbursement coupon to print off on its website which offers €5 off a month for 12 months, plus up to €100 to pay off outstanding months and closing down fees on your old contract.
It also has €10 per month off its mobile contracts.
The offers are sans engagement, so can be cancelled any time.
Red - the low cost firm of SFR - has a headline deal of high speed internet (up to 100mb/s) unlimited calls from a landline, 25 channels (plus the option to pay €2 for extras) for just €9.99 a month for a year sans engagement.
On the mobile side, Red is also offering 20Gb of data and unlimited calls and texts (mainland France) for €3.99 for 12 months sans engagement.
There are just a couple of days left to profit from Virgin Mobile’s offer of 20Gb data, unlimited texts (to 99 numbers) and unlimited calls (to 199 numbers in France, plus Europe at weekends).
For those not bound to contracts there are some great deals available online.
Free has a deal that lives up to its name. If you already own a Freebox, their mobile deal for two hours of calls (France metropole and 100 other destinations), unlimited texts (France metropole) and 50mb data is… free.
Even if you do not have a Freebox, the offer costs just €2 a month. Alternatively, their package of unlimited calls (France and 100 destinations and texts (Europe and DOM TOMs) and 50gb data is €15.99 with a box, €19.99 without.
Over at Bouygues Telecom the company is directing its best offers at those who are already clients.
Photo:Flickr/Andy Rennie