INVESTIGATION – The sector has deployed very high-speed internet to 86% of households, but the last connections are stuck. The question of the sustainability and resilience of infrastructures over time is also raised. Communities are sounding the alarm.
« We’ve pushed the wall back so far, but it’s going to be difficult to avoid it now. » The message from Ariel Turpin, general delegate of Avicca, the organization that brings together communities committed to digital technology, is as clear as it is worrying. In his eyes, the very high-speed plan, which aims to cover the territory with fiber optics by 2025, is stalling. France, which has managed to connect no fewer than 38 million homes in the space of 10 years, is a model student in Europe. Nearly 87% of French homes are eligible for this technology allowing much higher speeds. This titanic project cost a whopping 35.7 billion euros, according to calculations by France Stratégie.
An undeniable success therefore, but which increasingly masks the pitfalls that are now real. The first challenge is obviously linked to completeness. The coverage of the territory had historically been divided into three: very dense zones (ZTD), where operators…
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