Jun 17
Fiber optics: the idea of a tax upset
Provide access to fiber optics to every home by 2025. A project championed by Nicolas Sarzkoy in February, which would cost 30 billion euros. If the Secretary of State for the Digital Economy, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, announced Wednesday at the fourth "Focus on the high speed" it had mobilized in 2011, about 7 billion euros over four or five years, it is far short.Recall that the need for public funding is in a range of 8 to 10 billion euros in five years.
Even with two billion euros loan from the general and the possible contribution of European funds for "a hundred million a year," the senator from Eure Hervé Maurey, to prepare a report on the financing of high Speed – the first version will be given to the Prime Minister during June – ruled yesterday that it will be difficult to escape a new tax, either on business or on consumers.
"We must find a tax with the broadest possible base for the rate is as low as possible," he argued.
Traders feel targeted by the tax
This ad is not to please operators, already cooled by the tax on broadcasting.At the outset, the secretary general of France Telecom, Pierre Louette has stepped into the breach at the meeting, suspecting that those "on which the tax will fall are always the same."
As for the alternative operators, represented by the assocaition Aforst, representatives denounced a measure that not n'impulserait development project, contrary to claims Hervé Maurey. This is not by reducing "the ability of investment" is encouraged operators operators, says the group.
In March, Martin Bouygues, head of the eponymous group, has raised its voice against the accumulation of taxes and regulation in general in the area.Its subsidiaries Bouygues Telecom and TF1 suffer, he said during the presentation of its 2009 results.
2 million households connected in 2011
According to Arcep, 80,000 French households currently subscribe to the optical fiber while 800,000 are connected to this technology that provides access to the Internet so much faster than ADSL.
Arcep expects more than two million households in France connected to the optical fiber in the summer of 2011.
Free starting to invest with France Telecom
In an interview with Le Figaro on June 2 last, Maxime Lombardini, the CEO of Free, said that France has a competitive environment for Internet broadband.
He said "France is ahead" in technology."France is at the forefront in Europe, thanks to a very successful framework that enables rapid deployment of fiber networks without digging sidewalks and minimizing interference in the condominium through pooling. "
Note that operators will invest together in the optical fiber. France Telecom has also launched an appeal to its competitors. Free has responded.
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