Sunday, June 5, 2016

Optical Fiber: now 1.6 million households equipped in France – France Soir

France is poised to realize its digital revolution. According to a report of the Observatory of the fixed market with high and very high speed Q1 2016 published by the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP), March 31, 2016, France had 4.5 million internet subscriptions at very high speed, 1.6 million jobs via optical fiber. For comparison, in 2014, France had 715,000 subscriptions of the latter type.

In terms of deployments, 14.8 million units (+ 9% in one year) were eligible for very high speed at end March 2016, 6 million via an offer fiber optic network end end (+ 37% in one year).

Meanwhile, the number of broadband subscriptions (less than 30 Megabit / s), totaled 22.6 million at the end of quarter, down from 255,000 in one year. This nevertheless represents 83% of the total number of high and very high speed subscriptions in France.

Interestingly, according to the same report, the fiber deployments from end to end (FTTH) in area urban have even supplanted less dense deployments in dense urban areas. Ad wrong so the blow to received ideas who want that large cities are best covered by broadband network. Indeed, on 6 million eligible FTTH housing, 2.4 million are located outside areas of high population density.

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment