Digital Standard - English or French

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With another price increase/new fee, I was just scrolling through the Bell website and programming choices.

It seems that the basic "digital standard" package is $31 or $32 a month (depending on US networks time shifting) if you speak English, however its only $25 or $26 a month if you speak French. The channel listing seems the same under either format. Additional theme packs are $8 a month under either format.

Now, I see that if you go to the higher priced packages that include a number of theme packs, then the "French" option forces you to have French theme packs, while English themes are not included. However, the English version lets you choose any 5 theme packs of any type. At the Premier level, the movie channels included are also either French or English.

However, below that level of subscription, I can't see the difference. I have digital standard and two theme packs, and one international channel. What's to stop me from telling them I want "French Digital Standard" instead of the English version, and so save $6 a month on my bill?

There must be some catch that is not immediately obvious? Do you (or your billing address) have to be in Quebec to get French Digital Standard, or something like that?
 
so basically, if you had up the cost for the missing channels the prices are the same.
 
Actually a little more...

Base 26$
+ Partout au Canada 3$
+ Networks 5$ or 8$

= 34$ or 37$ so mor than the Digital Standard which is 31$ or 32$

 
If you subscribe to hd, you get the nets... Then no need for the 8$ overpriced pack. So french is cheaper.
 
The 5$ credit for the "network" channels is given to the client that have the 4 French theme + 1 English theme AND "networks".

The promo has been previously discussed on Digital Home, and as I mentionned prviously very few agents are aware of that It is therefore very possible that if you call to add agent will advise you It would cost you 30$ for your theme while in fact it would be 25$
 
OK - this makes sense. Thanks for your help.

I guess the Bell website is just wrong at the moment. If you go to:

http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpTv_AIO_Pkg.page

and click on "Digital Standard", or "See our French Packages" and "Base numerique" you get the same channel listing. Your listing above makes much more sense.

Well, being in a southern province, I could probably live most of the time without most of those channels in red, but sometimes the fiance has three reality TV shows on at once, so its convenient to get the third one off the CTV feed when the DVR here is maxed out.

So, I'll leave things as they are.
 
http://www.bell.ca/web/tv/fr/all_regions/pdfs/channels/french_menu.pdf ->French programming guide. You could see R
 
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