法国国际广播电台

Read as words rather than as a brand, the name says broadcasting station and international. That is the broadcaster's own description of the service, written in Chinese characters, and it is more specific than the tags the entry carries.

法国国际广播电台 ranks 22 among 710 stations in France. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

法国国际广播电台 has 61 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

The gap here is large: 64 kbps where France's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The stream is served from rfienchinois64k.ice.infomaniak.ch, which no other entry in France uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.