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France champions fiber-to-the-apartment
April 24, 2008
Posted by Meghan Fuller Hanna
In the last issue of Lightwave Europe, European editor Kurt Ruderman
noted that in less than two years, France has become Europe's most
competitive FTTH market. (Click here for that story.)
It may have taken another step forward today.
The International Herald Tribune is re****ting that the French
government plans to require all new apartment buildings with more than
25 units to be outfitted with fiber by 2010. The cost of installing
fiber would be included in the sale price of the apartment. (See
"France to require apartments to come wired.")
"The government's goal is to give very fast broadband a push in the
back," government spokesman Luc Chatel was quoted as saying. "There's
an obstacle to access, which is the entrance to the building."
The proposed law, to be voted on by Parliament this summer, would
allow all network operators access to the buildings. Those operators
would then decide among themselves whether and how to share local
neighborhood switching nodes, says the article. And for issues that go
beyond building access, the government would defer to the judgment of
France's telecommunications regulator, ARCEP.
There is no shortage of competition in France today, particularly
around Paris. France Telecom--the first European in***bent to commit
to FTTH--and alternative providers like Free and Neuf Cegetel, plus
cable TV provider Numericable, are deploying fiber at a rapid clip.
Each of their targeted homes passed numbers in the millions. And all
have pursued these plans aggressively despite regulatory uncertainty
in areas like vertical deployment and building access. It will be
interesting to watch what happens once these regulations are in place.
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>Meghan Fuller Hanna</a><br /><br />In
the last issue of <i>Lightwave Europe</i>, European editor Kurt
Ruderman noted that in less than two years, France has become Europe's
most competitive FTTH market. (Click <a href=http://lw.pennnet.com/
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<i>International Herald Tribune</i> is re****ting that the French
government plans to require all new apartment buildings with more than
25 units to be outfitted with fiber by 2010. The cost of installing
fiber would be included in the sale price of the apartment. (See <a
href=http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/24/technology/
fiber.php>"France to require apartments to come wired."</a>)<br /><br /
>"The government's goal is to give very fast broadband a push in the
back," government spokesman Luc Chatel was quoted as saying. "There's
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judgment of France's telecommunications regulator, ARCEP. <br /><br /
>There is no shortage of competition in France today, particularly
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to FTTH--and alternative providers like Free and Neuf Cegetel, plus
cable TV provider Numericable, are deploying fiber at a rapid clip.
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