2023-11-07 00:38:38
France has 36 million households eligible for fiber optic connection. Laurent REA/PHOTOPQR/DNA/MAXPPP
INFO LE FIGARO – The company will connect 1.5 million new homes by 2025 and accepts the idea of a “right to connection”.
Nine months of tough negotiations to reach an agreement. The Minister of Digital Transition and Telecommunications, Jean-Noël Barrot, indicates to the Figaro having obtained new commitments from the operator Orange on the deployment of optical fiber in France. The country, although ahead of its neighbors with more than 36 million eligible households (86% of the total), has seen the growth of new connections stall in recent months. “It’s more of a collapse than a slowdownnotes Ariel Turpin, general delegate of Avicca, an association of communities engaged in digital technology. The deployment of new connected homes over the whole of 2023 corresponds to a quarter of 2022, which was already a year down compared to 2021».
According to him, all territories are affected: very dense areas (metropolises) as well as moderately dense areas covered by Orange and SFR (so-called call for expression of investment intention zones or…
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