The Very high speed plan which was to ensure the deployment of fiber for all by 2022 will be very difficult to achieve, even with the hypothetical proposal by SFR to go it alone with its own infrastructure and without the need for public money.
Not disarming, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron affirmed his desire to ''speed up the schedule"by offering high and very high speed for all from 2020.
It is no longer a question here of bringing the speeds of optical fiber to all but rather of improving the existing one to ensure better flows in a reasonable time interval, by continuing to deploy optical fiber but also by reinforcing 4G coverage of the territory (and with the strengthening of fixed 4G box offers) and by using alternatives such as satellite Internet to cover the most difficult to access areas.
The government has started to put pressure on telecom operators with a financial contribution in return for the large investment plan of 50 billion euros recently announced.
The newspaper The echoes note that the operators are not opposed to an acceleration of the calendar but they wish some fiscal arrangements (like the reduction of the tax IFER, or Fixed Taxation on the Companies of Networks, on the radio installations, therefore the antennas of the mobile networks) or the early renewal of mobile phone licenses.
On the other hand, the government has not commented on the SFR project which promises, however, a deployment of fiber throughout the territory for 2025. It will take more than words to convince …
