50% of the price in France is also taxes and network maintenance fees so your argument does not make sense. The retail price is so high because it is a failure

50% of the price in France is also taxes and network maintenance fees so your argument does not make sense. The retail price is so high because it is a failure of both technology and politics. The taxes are that high because politically they decided to over-invest in a bad technological choice; pretending otherwise is an extremely bad faith argument.