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[[fr: Freebox]]
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The '''Freebox''' is an [[ADSL]] [[modem]] that the French [[internet service provider]] named [[Free_(French_ISP)|Free]] provides to its [[ADSL]] subscribers.

Its main use is as a high-end wireless modem (802.11g MIMO), but it also allows Free to offer added services using ADSL as support, like HD television (1080p), video  recording with timeshifting capabilities, digital radio and free telephony (via one or two RJ11 according to models).

The Freebox is lent to the subscribers, its value being 190 Euros according to the operator. It is delivered with a remote control, a multimedia box equipped with a 40GB hard drive and accessories (cables and filters). According to [http://www.vnunet.fr/actualite/telecommunications/services_et_contenus/20050908005 this article], at the end of first semester 2005, more than 1.1 million subscribers were equipped with the Freebox. According to Company official's results publication, the 2 million of freebox were reached on september 2006. 

The telephony offer via the Freebox offers various services such as free calls between Freebox and towards the fixed numbers in Metropolitan France and also free over 49 abroad countries (USA, Canada, UK, Spain, China etc...) since end 2005.

According to Alexandre Archambault from Free, the Freebox is "nothing other thatn the return to the fundamentals of the DSL", whose initial objective was "to connect via a single support several types of terminals, therefore several types of services: telephone (telephony), microcomputer (Internet access), television set (television transmission, video on demand, pay per view...), hi-fi system (radios, etc.)".

(contracted; show full)In the same way, the Freebox (v3 and upper) is able to broadcast TV channels to one or more computer. 


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[[Category:Modems]]
[[Category:Digital video recorders]]