French internet traffic saw an increase of 9.2 per cent year-on-year, to 50.8 Tb/s, according to Arcep’s annual The State of Internet in France report. Five ‘Big Tech’ US companies – Netflix, Akamai, Google, Meta and Amazon – together generated 47 per cent of this traffic, down from 53 per cent in 2023. With a […]

Audiovisual usage represented 2.9 per cent of France’s electric consumption, or 13 TWh and 0.9 per cent of its carbon footprint, in 2022.  For the first time, TV regulator Arcom along with telecoms watchdog Arcep and environmental agency Ademe have conducted a study about the audiovisual industry’s environmental impact. They want to initiate action to […]

Arcep Director-General, Cécile Dubarry, will be leaving the French media regulator on August 19th, and will take up the role Director-General of the Institut Mines-Télécom on the same date. Dubarry began her career in 1994 at the Directorate-General of Posts and Telecommunications then, from 1997 to 2002, at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. In 2002, she […]

Arcep, the French regulatory body, has presenting the 2024 edition of its report on the state of the internet in France. This is Volume 3 of the annual report that the Authority submits to the country’s Parliament each year. The report provides an account of the actions that Arcep has taken to safeguard the smooth […]

French telecom regulatory body Arcep has sanctioned telco Orange, fining it €26 million for non-compliance with the first deadline of its FTTH commitments in the AMII zone, which comprises private initiatives in moderately dense zones. Orange has responded by planning to take the State Council to court in order to overrule a sanction it deems […]

Netflix accounted for 19.7 per cent of French Internet traffic in 2022 according to comms regulator Arcep’s annual report on the State of the Internet in France. The breakdown by origin of traffic to customers shows that the top five companies also include Google, Akamai, Meta and Amazon and represent 54 per cent of traffic. […]

The pace of fibre to the home (FTTH) deployment has been continuing at a steady pace, despite sizeable regional disparities, according to French telecom regulator Arcep’s latest ‘scorecard’ for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market. The report finds that 4.7 million new FTTH lines were deployed over the course of 2022, including 1.3 million […]

Figures from France’s telecoms regulator Arcep reveal the rate of fibre to the home (FTTH) deployment and adoption remained high in the first quarter of 2022. ROLLOUTS: The overall rate of deployment slowed in Q1 while remaining solid, with 1.1 million new FTTH lines deployed over the course of the quarter – Over the course […]

The Starlink broadband network has regained permission to operate in France following a public consultation in the country, with telecoms regulator Arcep granting a 10-year licence to operate. There have been a number of highly-vociferous objectors to the Elon Musk-owned service being allowed to operate in France. Arcep had previously approved in February 2021 Starlink’s […]

There were a total 14.5 million active fibre access lines in France at the end of 2021, which represents a year-on-year increase of 4.1 million, according to telecoms watchdog Arcep’s 2021 annual Observatory. For the first time, there were more active fibre-based broadband and superfast broadband lines than copper network DSL-based ones (14.4 million. Among […]