Subscriptions to high speed (THD) Fixed experienced a growth of 35% year on year to 4.5 million households as of March 31, 2016. An increase particularly carried by the fiber end-to-end ( FTTH) which, with around 1.6 million subscriptions, the opportunity to share an increase of 53% over the period, according to the latest (provisional) of the market observatory ARCEP (Autorité de regulation of electronic communications and postal).
remember that the THD qualifies lines can provide 30 Mbit / s and flows. They concern the fiber to the home (FTTH), hybrid technologies (fiber and cable termination or FTTB) or, in some cases, copper VDSL2. In more detail, subscriptions to over 100 Mbit / s (FTTH and FTTB) include nearly 2.8 million subscribers.
Rising to the detriment of HD THD
the increase in the adoption of THD in France (1.16 million total for the year) is, by communicating vase game, partly at the expense of broadband subscriptions. These have seen from 254,000 households (-1.1%). Of ADSL subscribers, which constitute the bulk of broadband technologies. Nevertheless, the adoption of alternatives, such as wireless or satellite, is markedly increased in passing from 476 000 subscriptions to 515 000. The total number of Internet subscriptions than 27 million homes and small businesses. An increase of 900,000 lines (+ 3.4%) in a year.
The adoption of THD now exceeds the rate of deployment of the latter. It is thus 9% more households can now benefit from a connection to more than 30 Mbit / s. A total of 14.8 million units. But only 9.8 million can benefit of over 100 Mbit / s. The fiber cable provides SFR (SFR-Numericable) remains majority to surf at very high speed in France. It affects about 8.9 million for services between 30 and 100 Mbit / s and 7.3 million beyond. Note that 3.8 million of these “wired” homes are located outside major cities called “dense areas.”
6 million housing almost FTTH
The respect for its FTTH share nearly 6 million homes (which are usually connected in the final meters) and marks a 37% increase in one year. More than double the 18% of the offer “cable”. “This quarter was marked by a sustained pace of deployments FTTH network with 370 000 additional eligible housing, an increase of 7% in one quarter after a record last quarter with 583,000 additional housing units and an increase of 12 % “, emphasizes the ARCEP. Dynamism brought by private operators (primarily Orange) but also the public initiative networks (PINs). 850,000 households are thus connectable to the THD through the initiatives of local authorities and Delegated infrastructure operators were up 8% of deployments in the quarter.
In this context, ARCEP announces the launching a dedicated observatory to RIP to be enriched with specific indicators over the quarters. For the first, the controller introduces the rate of sharing of optical lines. And notes that about 30% of the 611,000 eligible taken FTTH in sparsely populated areas of the RIP are carried out by two or more operators. A substantially lower rate in view of 60% lines (3.6 million units) FTTH nationally marketed by two or more operators. A rate increase of 32% in one year. Note that 2.4 million of eligible housing in fiber are outside very dense areas.
Drop in the number of unbundled lines
The investments are also continuing on copper lines . Alternative operators have unbundled 1,000 new NRA (connection node subscribers) in a year to reach a total of 9976 NRA. They allow to unbundle 92.2% (+0.8 points in one year) of some 30 million of the country brass lines. However, actually 12.2 million unbundled lines mark a decline of 180,000 connections over year. . Copper subscribers Tipping accordingly to the fiber or coaxial
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