Question 16330 — telecommunications

Summary

Mr. Julien Guibert draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for artificial intelligence and digital technology, to the situation of housing declared eligible for optical fiber but remaining, in fact, impossible to connect, particularly in rural areas. In several communes of Nièvre, residents are find themselves faced with a particularly incomprehensible situation: their home officially appears to be eligible for fiber connection, but no effective connection can be made due to the absence or insufficiency of infrastructure that can be used in the public domain, such as ducts or poles. In certain cases, network management operators refuse to finance the necessary work, believing that these should have been carried out historically by the former managers of telecoms infrastructures. This situation leads to blockages that can last several years, without a concrete solution for the residents concerned. These difficulties are particularly penalizing in rural areas where access to digital technology constitutes a fundamental issue of territorial equality, access to public services, teleworking, economic activity and attractiveness. While the State has widely communicated on the objective of “100% fiber” and that 93.5% of premises would now be theoretically connectable according to ARCEP, nearly 3 million premises still need to be made actually connectable. At the same time, the pace of deployment slows down sharply, with a drop of 28% observed in 2025. Behind these national statistics thus remain numerous concrete situations where residents are declared eligible without being able to actually be connected. He asks how many homes are currently listed at national level as "eligible but not connectable", what obligations really weigh on operators regarding the responsibility for the work necessary for the effective connection of homes, what measures the Government intends to implement in order to to force operators to ensure a real connection to the housing concerned, and if a specific system is envisaged to support rural municipalities faced with these blocking situations.

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