Research and Markets: New Insights on France's Fibre and Wireless Broadband Market

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Posted July 6, 2011

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/97ee47/france_fibre_and) has announced the addition of the "France - Fibre and Wireless Broadband Insights" report to their offering.

France is among the top three countries in Europe for fibre deployment, with growth bolstered both by demand for high bandwidth applications and by alternative operators keen to build networks independent from France Telecom. Fibre infrastructure has benefited from one of Europe's most far-reaching investment programs, with leading operators such as France Telecom, SFR, Numricable and Iliad concentrating on the more expensive but robust FttH rather than the fibre/VDSL2 hybrid networks favoured by most other operators in Europe. The country also benefits from a regulator which has promoted fibre effectively, and from legislation introduced since 2008 which facilitates fibre access among providers.

This report assesses France's fibre, wireless and satellite broadband markets in 2011, reviewing the strategies of the principal providers and analysing the regulatory implications for municipal-funded fibre networks and the tightened regulatory regime for the maturing WiFi/WiMAX market.

Key developments: Orange investing 2 billion to provide 15 million households with FttH by 2015; regulator consults on 3.5GHs spectrum for broadband use; almost 1.1 million homes passed for FttH; 1,650% growth in number of homes passed by shared fibre networks.

Companies covered in this report include Orange, Iliad (Free), SFR, Numricable, Bouygues Telecom.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/97ee47/france_fibre_and