Ardèche Drôme Numérique (ADN) has just announced that it has finalized its work to seek additional funding to move towards 100% coverage of public initiative areas in the two departments.
A surplus estimated at 75 million euros
The ADN union led negotiations for several months with Axione/Bouygues Energies et Services as well as the public service delegate, ADTIM FTTH for financing. The challenge of the maneuver was not to ask local authorities to finance the additional costs linked to the deployment of 100% fiber.
To achieve full deployment, the additional investment is estimated at 75 million euros and it will be mainly financed by ADTIM FTTH via an extension of its public service delegation contract. Thanks to this contract, ADN will receive more royalties linked to the marketing of the network and the support of new investments which were originally the responsibility of the union.
This only concerns the public initiative network of the two departments, i.e. 634 municipalities. The remainder, i.e. 64 municipalities, is financed by private operators.
Ultimately, the ADN network will concern 311,000 households and today, 274,257 lines are already deployed, including 252,262 eligible, while 112,040 households are already subscribed to optical fiber with one of the operators present on the network.
The objective assigned to us as part of the Departmental Digital Territorial Development Plan is 97% fiber coverage by December 31, 2025. 97% is good but at ADN, we wanted to go further . For what ? Because the 3% correspond to hyper-rural territories. And for us, the important thing is that everyone benefits from the same service. The equity of public service is that, benefiting from very high speed with the same technology which is optical fiber. For you, we don't give up!
-Didier-Claude Blanc, president of ADN and regional advisor Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Published on January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 par Geoffrey Thomassin
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