Mayor Joël Rouquet received on Wednesday April 10, at the town hall in Vareilles, the communications manager of the company Alliance THD (Very High Speed), Marine Clairgeau, who came to present a competition-obtained document to a resident of the town. Henri Cordesse, from Civeyrac, left with an electric bike. As a first time user of optical fiber he was able to participate, was drawn at random from among the Lozériens who responded, The Lot and Aveyron also each had their winner.
The organizer of this game is Alliance THD, a company created to deploy optical fiber. A subsidiary of Orange, it was responsible for designing, building and marketing the RIP public initiative network, via a 25-year public service delegation signed in 2017. This in five years and with nearly 350,000 sockets. The departmental councils of Aveyron, Lot and Lozère have launched a call for tenders to cover 100% of their territory in less dense areas with optical fiber. This deployment to 787 municipalities was slightly delayed due to the health crisis and was finally completed in 2023.
“The bicycle was chosen as an example because it is a gentle and low-carbon mode of transport, with a small footprint, like fiber which consumes 3 times less kw/h than copper wire technology and 10 times less than 4G”explained Marine Clergeau, she specified the value, more than €2,900, the three bikes having been acquired from the Decathlon brand in Rodez, the company’s headquarters.
The mayor took the opportunity to talk about a remainder to be equipped, the hamlet of Bébulon, the only one in the commune to be located south of the D989, which cannot be connected to the underground fiber network of this departmental road. A solution is being studied to supply the Prunières route via the aerial network.
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