Upgraded broadband offers proving popular with customers
Algérie Télécom announced it has connected its 600,000th FTTH customer to its Idoom Fibre service. The customer will be given a year’s free 300Mbps service.
The network operator said, “We have invested in state-of-the-art equipment to improve the quality of our network and provide an unparalleled user experience in terms of speed and reliability…Idoom Fibre is available in a growing number of neighborhoods throughout the national territory.”
The operator is state-owned – or as it says, “a public economic company status in a legal form of a joint-stock company” – and is the main telecoms service provider in the country which has a population of about 44.606 million, according to the World Population Review in 2023. Most of the population (about 90%) lives in the north of the country, along with coast.
Trebling speed
In November 2022, Algérie Télécom trebled its top speed for residential fibre broadband to 300Mbps. Its Idoom Fibre speeds now range from 20Mbps to 50Mbps, 100Mbps, 200Mbps and 300Mbps.
Customers already subscribed to a 100Mbps package are automatically being switched to the new 300Mbps service at the same monthly price of DZD6.999 ((€47.96), and those receiving 50Mbps service are to be upgraded to 100Mbps for the same price of DZD3,500.
New 50Mbps subscriptions will be charged a reduced price of DZD2,999 and the new 200Mbps option costs DZD4,999.
New Idoom Fiber customers receive a free optical modem offer including eligible ADSL customers who switch to fibre.
Those without fibre
For those outside fibre broadband network zones, Algerie Telecom has introduced a new VDSL package with a top download speed of 50Mbps, up from 20Mbps, with the new 50Mbps option costing DZD2,999 a month and are not to be charged a connection cost.
Algérie Télécom launched a promotion on 16 February giving customers the option of subscribing to 15 Mega, 20 Mega, 50 Mega, 100 Mega, 200 Mega and 300 Mega speeds plus optical modem and installation. The offer ends this week.