"Even the cellphone doesn't pass anymore. We are isolated from the world. Orange would have to move, they should come when they set up meetings for us ”: Christian, who lives in Ratières (Drôme), can't take it anymore. He entrusts his fed up to France Bleu Drôme. "On disability", he explains that "his respiratory system cannot be updated without the Internet".
Like him, 350 Orange and Drôme and Ardèche customers still do not have a landline telephone since the heavy snowfall in mid-November. Many trees had fallen, resulting in power or telephone cuts. In January, 10 times more households were affected. But those, whose line has not been restored, are impatient to say the least.
A collaborative card
According to France Bleu, Orange promises to restore all lines by the beginning of March. The operator indicates that since mid-November, 1,500 telephone poles have been replaced.
The Ardèche collective Orange J'enrage has launched a collaborative card to identify damaged telephone lines and to report on the state of the network, everywhere in France.