Fiberoptic broadband gains in france
June 16th, 2008Is the digital divide reabsorbed? For four years, Orange has gradually made its 13.000 telephone centres compatible with l’ ADSL, l’ High speed Internet. Result: more than 98% of the French population from now on access to this technology has. This figure n’ was that 60% four years ago. Discover Desk, your control screen and follow-up of l’ information in real-time. You in Monde.fr subscribe: 6€ per month + 30 days offered ON THE SAME SUBJECT Facts calculated slownesses of very high banc The facts Fiberoptic: investments records and concerns of l’ Arcep The facts the fiberoptic gains all the Seine-et-Marne Forum Economy Edition subscribed File: The success of the American cable television operators makes dream Numéricâble However, the situation n’ qu’ is not also idyllic; it appears to with it. L’ Internet high banc in the jargon of the sector is an higher capacity with 512 kilobits a second. An insufficient transmission speed of data, particularly to download vidéos. Worse, it deprives the users of certain services like television by ADSL, which at least requires 4 to 5 megabits a second flow. Certain operators require an higher capacity to ensure a good quality of service. The problem is simple: more one s’ move away from the telephone centre, plus the flow becomes weak. The quality of the line can also affect transmission speed. L’ Regulatory agency of the electronic communications and the stations (Arcep) is unable to provide the number of the French hearths which suffer d’ a low flow Internet. To correct these defects, Orange installs telephone mini-exchanges in villages or hamlets. In addition, l’ operator will market, on July 3, for 29,90 euros monthly, an allowing apparatus, those whose flow Internet is too low, to receive television programs. These subscribers will be able s’ to equip d’ a decoder which will be at the same time connected to l’ ADSL and with the satellite. They should thus have access to l’ Internet and gradually to forty chains aujourd’ today only accessible via l’ ADSL. Free, on its side, proposes a version ” low débit” of its television by ADSL which makes it possible to receive the chains of the TNT. But to reach this service d’ should be laid out; a flow d’ at least 3,5 megabits a second. The supplier d’ access to Internet (FAI) makes also accessible some chains via l’ computer. A solution which also proposes Last nine Telecom However, the tariff of l’ subscription, just in lower part of 30 euros, is the same one, as l’ subscriber has access or not to the television services. D’ other techniques exist. Wimax uses the Hertzian waves. This ” super-Wi-Fi” , which generally authorizes a flow d’ one 1 megabit a second, is far d’ to equip all the areas with l’ Hexagon. Altitude Telecom, one of the FAI which use this technique, does not cover for l’ moment that 15 departments and envisages s’ to extend to a half-dozen d’ others d’ here end of l’ year. He proposes to the private individuals subscriptions with 39,90 euros per month. For this price, one does not receive television and it is necessary to add 6 euros additional to obtain the unlimited telephone service. The satellite is an alternative for those which are not eligible with l’ ADSL and n’ access to Wimax does not have. Jusqu’ now this technique suffered nevertheless d’ a handicap: the data ” descendaient” satellite. To send its requests or its emails, it was necessary to pass by a traditional phone line, even a cellphone. And this solution was relatively expensive. It is of 24,90 euros per month at SkyDSL for a flow of 1 megabit a second and of 54,90 euros for a flow of 4 a second. ” OFFERS; Bi-DIRECTIONNELLES” D’ other operators should propose ” offers; Bi-directionnelles” , where the signal goes up and goes down, without l’ d’ is needed; a traditional phone line nor to connect itself to a network of portable telephony. A last solution precisely consists in using the mobile telephone network. L’ arrival of terminals allowing of surfer correctly on Internet, l’ progressive extension of the cover of the network 3G and the generalization of fixed prices Mobile Internet make possible l’ d’ use; a portable. The second, more expensive, consists in connecting on catch USB of its computer a ” key 3G” who connects himself to l’ Internet. In the best of the cases, it will be possible d’ to obtain a flow of 3,6 megabits a second. Mobile telephone networks 4G which would authorize flows much higher are already with l’ study.