In conflict for several months with the operator on the fee for occupation of the premises provided, the municipality ensures that Numericable will pay him the 8.37 million it owes and remove remedies to justice. Millions of subscribers will be able to breathe.
The threat of the black screen on Numericable million subscribers is no more. In conflict for several months about a fee for the occupation of premises at its disposal, the City of Paris and the operator have ended their dispute. The town hall, which was threatening Numericable to withdraw all its equipment (TV, telephone and Internet) by the 10th of August, ensures that the operator will set it full of € 8.37 million it owes and ending judicial appeals. “The City welcomes the decision of Numericable, SFR and allow it to continue to invest sustainably and its deployment on the territory of Paris,” said the municipality. “It’s a win-win agreement, we soldons the past and start a new basis for the future, Parisians will be able to continue to benefit from our network,” has for its part welcomed Jerome Yomtov General Secretary Numericable, SFR.
At the root of this conflict is the refusal of Numericable in 2009 to sign an agreement which provides for an increase in tariffs for the use of premises in the city in which telcos deploy their technical infrastructure. “The City of Paris signs agreements with 17 operators. This agreement ready to royalties. This is the same rate for everyone that was fixed in 2009. The rider on the agreements signed by all operators except Numericable. At the expiration of its convention last February, the latter refused to sign another with the new fee schedule. It is therefore occupying without right or title of the premises of the city from that period, “says the Le Figaro a spokesman of the city of Paris.
“When you rent a 50m² one does not want to pay the rent for a 100m²”
The operator challenged the calculation basis used by the city to enforce its rents, based on the total area of the premises provided the perimeter and not actually used by the operator. “The difference calculation is linked to the difference in views on the surface: when you rent a 50m² one does not want to pay the rent of 100m², here is exactly the same”, explained to AFP Jerome Yomtov, general secretary of Numericable, SFR.
The operator asked to receive a discount, and a different assessment base. Preferential treatment that the city of Paris was not ready to give him the name of the principle of equality to which the community is subject. “If we do something for Numericable, we will have to revise all rates of other operators and repay overpayments,” says does one at City Hall in Paris.
According to Calculations of the city, rents paid by Numericable should have increased by an average of 62,772 euros per year, which was therefore not appropriate. Besides this agreement problem, the city charges the operator Completel and its subsidiary, specialized in services for professionals, for not fully paid his dues over the period 2008-2013. In total, the bill she is claiming amounts to 8,370,000 euros! “If he refuses to sign the agreement and resolve outstanding, and if the equipment is not removed by the 10th of August, the city is entitled to proceed itself to the withdrawal of the equipment, the cost of Numericable” says does one at City Hall.
Customers may pay the price for this mess. And not just Parisians. For the phone, all national telecom operators’ networks interconnecting the capital, these are all Numericable customers in France, 1.7 million people who could be affected by the removal of infrastructure in Paris. Those Bouygues Telecom, or 2.4 million people, will also be impacted because the operator leases the Numericable network. A total of 4.1 million subscribers are potentially concerned.
Faced with this pressure, Numericable now seems ready to make a move. “Numericable has called us to organize an emergency meeting Thursday morning at City Hall. They are in a constructive approach, “says a spokesman, implying that the operator may decide to rectify the situation. If negotiations fail, the town seems in any case ready to execute his threats, “the city must be uncompromising with respect conventions,” she recalls
. The problems accumulate to Numericable
There are not only Paris that the operator has a difficult relationship. Numericable is also facing a dispute with the General Council of the neighboring department of Hauts-de-Seine who blames his delays in the deployment of fiber optics. In 2007, the department had told Sequalum, a subsidiary owned 95% by Numericable and 5% by SFR, the mission of establishing a network of internet access very high speed (THD) to cover 100% riding the end of 2015. Faced with a project that took “far behind”, according to local officials, the department had terminated his contract with the end of October Sequalum. The General Council claimed a total of 96.7 million euros in penalties.
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