Example: with its 28 channels to be viewed in streaming via the Internet connection of your choice, the Base TV service (€10 per month) breaks the logic of the pack. It is no longer mandatory to subscribe to both services with a single operator. This is the potential trigger for a serious drop in your monthly payments.
1. The most economical option… provided you hurry
Our choice. hey! Internet + Base TV. €39 per month. Internet: download 200 Mbps (megabits per second), upload 10 Mbps, unlimited volume. 28 French-language TV channels via application (Android TV, Apple TV, Android, iPhone, iPad).
Orange sub-brand, hey! uses the VOO network in Wallonia and Brussels to offer a solid Internet connection (200 Mbps) for €39 per month, €29 thanks to a lifetime discount of €10 granted to new customers who subscribe by September 30, 2024.
It’s not the speed of Proximus’ optical fiber, but it’s significantly better than that of good old VDSL (100 Mbps).
Provided you get the lifetime discount, Internet hey! Internet is a perfect match from an economic point of view with Base TV (€10 per month) and its 28 channels available via an “app”. The service is complete: “replay”, recording, live pause, etc.
Caution: As Base points out on this page, “some TVs, such as Samsung or LG smart TVs, do not use Android or iOS (Apple), which means you will not be able to download the BASE TV app.”
2. The best compromise, after a review of the speeds
Our choice. Scarlet Trio. €42 per month. Internet: download 100 Mbps, upload 20 Mbps, volume 3 TB (terabytes). More than 60 TV channels via decoder. Landline.
Pushed from behind by the competition, Scarlet revised upwards the speed of its main Internet connections on September 1, 2024: from 70 to 100 Mbps for downloading, from 10 to 20 Mbps for sending.
The basic “replay” of digital TV remains a paid option: + €3 per month to “go back to the start of a program in progress” and “go back up to 36 hours in your TV guide”, according to the Proximus sub-brand.
Compared to the hey! Internet + Base TV formula, Scarlet Trio relies on a decoder, which eliminates the problems of incompatibility with smart TV, and a more generous selection of channels. It is also possible to subscribe to additional TV options.
3. Best value for money…only for newbies
Our choice. VOO Duo Fast Internet + TV with decoder. €52 per month. Internet: 200 Mbps download, 10 Mbps upload, unlimited volume. 80 TV channels with decoder.
In the major reorganization of its brands, Orange has decided that VOO will switch from high-end to mid-range. The keystone of this repositioning: a lifetime reduction of €15 per month on most packs.[…] for any new VOO customer subscribing to a 6-month subscription” before January 1, 2025.
The measure logically upsets old customers, who do not understand why they have to pay €15 more per month for strictly identical services.
This controversy aside, this revised and by extension very competitive price of €52 combines the comfort of an admittedly prehistoric decoder (2015), a solid Internet connection and a generous selection of channels.
The activation and installation fees (€110) are free… unless you opt for the Giga Fast connection (1 Gbps) instead of the fast one (200 Mbps).
