A pitched battle of which the telecoms sector has the secret.
For several weeks, Nicolas Aubé has been angry with the telecoms regulator (Arcep) and the historic operator Orange.
At the head of Celeste, an operator created thirteen years ago, he deployed his own fiber optic network and ran 12,000 km of cables across the country to offer connectivity to a business clientele.
“
Contrary to what we imagine, we do not spend our time digging trenches to pass the cables.
In 1% of cases, we build new civil engineering, but 99% of the time, we use Orange's existing civil engineering, as all operators do
,”
he explains to Le
Figaro
.
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The historic operator has a virtual monopoly on this infrastructure, made up of poles in rural areas and drawing chambers connected by ducts in town.
And all operators pay him a fee for access to this civil engineering.
However, Arcep, which sets the access price…
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