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 guarantee

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