Optical fibre to the mat, can do better. While the Government has just published its national programme for the very high throughput, the figures are bitter: for ten dwellings connected, there is an actual subscriber home be 80,000 throughout the country. Jean-Ludovic Silicani, President of the regulator (Arcep) telecoms, declared himself "surprised and disappointed" by the large gap. On a visit last Friday to Pau, agglomeration community pioneer in optical fiber to the Subscriber, it nevertheless expressed its satisfaction. "More than 1.7 million homes and businesses will be connected." We can say now that the investment cycle started in our country. 
But before entering public service or public-private partnerships delegations, operators and communities would probably learn paloise experience. This is already seven years that this fiber network works. Its initiator, Socialist André Labarrère, wanted to very broadband within the reach of all businesses as individuals, to give rise to innovative uses and build a new economic sector. He built a public service delegation, harvested 7.7 million euros of funds ERDF European and 1.1 million euros of the Aquitaine region, entrusted the construction of the network to Axione (Bouygues group), and left to private operators care for managing the commercial part. Since 2007, it is nine Cegetel-SFR which took up the torch. With a simple and attractive formula, based on offers high-speed ADSL: Internet, telephone and television for 34,90 euro per month. Flow: 70 megabits per second.
Inertia prevails
With a such a pipe, a few minutes are sufficient to download a real film. Can also look at high-definition television, to video streaming application, work on Office automation software stored remotely, deploy eco-efficient data centers. "All of this, it was too early in 2003.". "We suffered plaster casts," notes on the community of agglomeration. Of course, Pau is désenclavée, related to the major global networks. Nearly 800 jobs have been created, an engineering school is installed. But in the absence of content and specific services which would highlight the added value of very broadband over ADSL, inertia prevails. Result, there is only 10,000 subscribers to 52,000 taken. A little hard for the community of agglomeration, which has invested 6 million euros in the project. But also for Axione, which has only 15 years old to earn money with its deployments (knowing that the private sector reached EUR 14.2 million).
Beyond this problem of pioneer, says Councillor of Pau, the problem is that SFR has not invested in the network. Operator is therefore not encouraged to advertise for this new service or to convert its ADSL subscribers to the fibre. "SFR plays not migration." "There is even not stop: when you want to be connected, they refer you to their partners", complains the Advisor. It is why the community and the delegate decided to reinvest to transform their network architecture and (possibly) allow the arrival of a competitor, France Telecom, in the very high throughput, in him renting already installed optical fiber, with contracts of thirty years. It was in fact the condition sine qua non that the historical operator agrees to operate a part of the network. Since France Telecom wants to control the infrastructure. Advanced negotiations could lead to an offer in 2011. With the arrival of this "alternative" operator, Pau hope to revive his very high throughput.
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