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Ten million households will no longer have access to ADSL technology in France by the end of the year.
This is the ambition displayed by Orange, announced Thursday its Secretary General, Nicolas Guérin, during the Arcep conference on connected territories.
The operator will carry out a “closing at the address” of ADSL offers using the copper lines of fixed telephony.
The judgment will be pronounced building by building, reports
01net
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Those who already have an ADSL subscription will be able to keep it but no new commissioning will be carried out there.
Technical closure in one year
To remove the ADSL offer from a home, the home must be connected to optical fiber and the four major telecom operators must be available there.
The figure of ten million homes will be quickly reached because the measure partly concerns large cities, where entire buildings are targeted.
Rural areas are still largely dependent on the telephone network.
Orange will carry out a dismantling test of the copper network in a town in Yvelines.
Four tests will then be scheduled for the second quarter of 2021 in France.
Other tests will be necessary, in larger cities, overseas as well as in areas containing several companies, specifies the operator.
"The technical closure will rather be in 2022," said the manager of Orange.
The end of the copper line is scheduled for 2030. It is in September that the operator will present a long-term plan to reach this deadline.
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