serhina

We spoke to the Mayor, the builder and others, apparently an aerial our locality is not very efficient,  we have invested in a digital kit (on offer in the local bricolage), we have arranged to have it fitted at the end of the month.  Hopefully we will be able to watch more than DVD's to improve our french.   

Thank you for all the info.  We are off to france tomorrow a.m. I have taken notes for on site research and will let you know how we get on when we get back after next week.   Serhina

Thanks for the welcome to the forum and for your advice and information, the links were very useful and confirmed that we are in a non degroupee area. As we have an FT phone already, I take it that the offer of unlimited calls to French fixed lines and some other fixed lines in Europe by various providers such as free and neuf telecom are not applicable in non degroupee areas.  Does anyone know if FT do unlimited calls to the UK for an additional monthly charge, I have not been able to find anything to that effect on their website, or indeed a telephone number for FT or Free that I can call from the UK. I shall be talking to the neighbours to find out how effective an ordinary aerial is and take it from there. Once again many thanks Serhina

We have just bought a house 15 mins from Hesdin and would be grateful for any advice on the best way to get basic French TV and also the best broadband / telephone provider (it would appear that the immediate locality is non degroupee).  .