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I have a 8/8 Gbps fiber (suburbs of a large city in France), and the point is more or less that you never sature it neither up or down. That's essentially why I

by nolok 2y ago

I have a 8/8 Gbps fiber (suburbs of a large city in France), and the point is more or less that you never sature it neither up or down. That's essentially why I upgraded from my 5/1 previous offer. For 60e/month I get that, ~260 TV channels, amazon prime, netflix/disney+/canal+ included, wifi 7 and a secondary extender with ethernet backhaul support, a 2.5Gb switch, dedicated ipv4, and a bunch of other things included like a cellphone sim card, a portable 4G router with 50Gb of monthly data, etc ... What our governement did in incentives push for their "project high speed internet" really worked here, 15 years ago even in large cities we were behind with lackluster adsl. Add EU's push to open the historic copper lines and Free's push into breaking the old money's market, both the home and mobile market is really great.

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago
> What our governement did in incentives push for their "project high speed internet" really worked here, Similar is happening in spots in the US. I'm in a location that was trenched for fiber using the recent broadband stimulus funds. I went from 40Mb up to 2Gb.
- nolok 2y ago
  Part of what they did here that worked so well was put a lot of money on the table, but tie it + deployment privilege in big cities / money sources to guaranteed deployment in smaller areas. France is much more empty than people in other country usually believe, we're no germany with our population spread out all over, we have a large areas with a lower population density than the midwest called the "empty diagonal" [1], and yet as of today we have 83% of fiber coverage There is no way those area would be covered without such a system For the mobile coverage they made it even simpler, in that the ISP right to their frequencies is tied to a timeline of coverage % of the territory, so we have 75% covered in 5G and 90% in 4G. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_diagonal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_diagonal

by nolok 2y ago

WarOnPrivacy 2y ago

> What our governement did in incentives push for their "project high speed internet" really worked here, Similar is happening in spots in the US. I'm in a location that was trenched for fiber using the recent broadband stimulus funds. I went from 40Mb up to 2Gb.

nolok 2y ago
Part of what they did here that worked so well was put a lot of money on the table, but tie it + deployment privilege in big cities / money sources to guaranteed deployment in smaller areas. France is much more empty than people in other country usually believe, we're no germany with our population spread out all over, we have a large areas with a lower population density than the midwest called the "empty diagonal" [1], and yet as of today we have 83% of fiber coverage There is no way those area would be covered without such a system For the mobile coverage they made it even simpler, in that the ISP right to their frequencies is tied to a timeline of coverage % of the territory, so we have 75% covered in 5G and 90% in 4G. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_diagonal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_diagonal