During a meeting in Bercy between the Minister and the various operators' representatives, or even the President of Arcep (Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Posts and Press Distribution), Laure de La Raudière, several measures were discussed with the aim of implementing "all of them by the end of the year", the ministry said.
These will be presented on September 23, at the end of the next working meeting, according to the same source.
Among the avenues under study, the training of subcontractors with the establishment of certification and labeling of skills, carried out by a "trusted third party" organization, or even the reduction of subcontracting in cascade .
At the beginning of June, the operators united in the French Telecoms Federation had already presented several "proposals" to improve the quality of connections.
At the end of July, Patrick Chaize, senator for Ain and president of Avicca, an association of local authorities, tabled a bill "for coercive purposes" in order to "obtain rapid and concrete change", under penalty of sanctions.
France has embarked in recent years on a major effort to accelerate the installation of optical fiber on its territory, with more than 30 million French people eligible for the network, half of whom are already connected.
Telecom operators have largely entrusted this connection effort to cascading subcontractors, sometimes with up to four levels of subcontracting.
On social networks, photos regularly show forced or damaged cupboards, with inside tangles of fibers indicating anarchic connections.
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