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Iliad, The French telecom giant led by renowned entrepreneur and startup investor Xavier Niel has released a new set-top box dubbed the Freebox Delta featuring direct integration with services like Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Alexa, Twitch, YouTube and Deezer and also audio speakers crafted by French high-end manufacturer Devialet which Niel says is built with focus on four major concepts: speed, mobility, quality and security.

The Freebox Delta will offer 1 Gigabyte per second download and 400 Megabyte per second upload with coverage reaching up to 10 million French homes. It stands as a true multimedia focused connected speaker with both Amazon Alexa and Netflix integrations which means access to all clips from Netflix for subscribers and easy control thanks to Amazon’s assistant.

Iliad founder Xavier Niel image : @jibees for LeWeb11 Conference

It also ships with 600 live channels and 100 channels in replay and includes WiFi, a Qi wireless charger, Bluetooth 4.1, a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and Dolby Audio. “Our idea is to offer a product that is unique and adds value to the Freebox we invented several years ago,” Niel said to reporters referring to major upgrade from its previous Freebox released in 2010.

Free, the Iliad subsidiary has lost subscribers for both its broadband and mobile business in the past year leading to a shed of about 36% in stock value this year for Iliad. The company is looking to this new Freebox to bolster revenues and prove one can do that by leveraging technology to its competitors.

The Freebox Delta Free

The Freebox Delta TV Interface Free

The Freebox Delta TV Interface Free

The new box will cost €49.99 ($57) per month in subscription for its users, about 10 euros more than its predecessor and also includes a fee of 10 euros ($11) for a four year subscription to the embedded speakers coming from Devialet which Niel is an investor in making a likely reason for this partnership between both.

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