2023-07-19 13:24:35
Fibre
• The inhabitants of Fontenay-sur-Loing have been cut off from the world since May 31 / This lack of network is linked to a copper theft that occurred on Wednesday May 31 within the “historic network”, specifies Orange / And as the cable theft was not enough, another incident took place on the network, last week. A car burned a few hundred meters further south, “breaking a pole”. An incident that notably cut off communication from some of the businesses in the forest business area. There too, no more Internet or telephone / Orange indicates that “you can’t go faster than music”. The material and human resources are lacking, but, as soon as these are operational, “we will start the work”, with the date of July 31 in sight (La République du Center Loiret)
• Yonne: nearly 1,200 homes deprived of internet following cable thefts / Cable thefts follow one another in Yonne, in recent days several municipalities have been deprived of internet. In all, according to Orange, 1,171 households no longer have access to ADSL (France Bleu)
• Deployment of fiber: “We are exposed to a catastrophic situation” / In Montperreux, 80% of the town has fiber. But the installation work makes the town hall fear the worst, whether in terms of safety, legality, aesthetics and medium-term reliability. “And all our interlocutors pass the buck,” laments Michel Pêpe, the first deputy (Ballast Republican)
Mobile coverage
• After many delays, 4G arrives in the Marseille metro / The Régie des Transport Métropolitains ensures that it has equipped 23 underground stations and 20 km of tunnels, in addition to the aerial stations (La Rose, Frais-Vallon, Bougainville, Sainte-Marguerite) which already benefit from the surface network. 40 km of fiber optic cables have been deployed to supply the antennas 236 4G antennas (119 in the station, 117 in the tunnel) (Zdnet)
Operators
•Concern is rising among Altice France employees following the case in Portugal / The CFDT has expressed its concern regarding the dependence of SFR and Altice France on Portugal. In an internal message, the union recalled “the enormous weight of Armando Pereira in the functioning of our company and the terror he always inspires in the teams” writes the union / Employees fear an impact on the reputation of SFR, in particular with the group’s creditors / The whole question now is whether Patrick Drahi was aware of the practices of Armando Pereira in Portugal (Les EchosThe Figaro)
Debates of ideas
• “For a more virtuous telecommunications / Digital sobriety is now an integral part of the world of telecommunications. It has even become one of the pillars of the ecological transition with innovation / Operators are led to develop action plans around energy sobriety / The State is undertaking new actions with the launch last July of a working group around “digital and telecommunications”: an opinion of Kelli-Carolin Parkja, marketing manager at Onoff Group (Idées-Les Echos)
• “States and Gafam, the end of candor / To counter the power of Gafam, states have several tools at their disposal. The dismantling, or even the ban, are neither the most realistic nor the most effective”: an opinion of Sylvain Duranton, global director of BCG X (Idées-Les Echos)
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