The two fibrooperators have in common a hungry strategy i

Bring a fibre to the home of the Subscriber, as proposed to a Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) network, would not "great interest". Hook simply because, in any case, individuals up in fine their television, their computers and their phone using several meters, respectively, coaxial cable, computer connections and pair of copper. In short, drawing a fiber into an apartment or a House would be "unnecessary". As new generations of coax and copper are able to cope at 100 Mbps in down flow and several "Megas" remontant developing. It is what explained Patrick Drahi, the President of Altice (co-owner of Numéricâble Estvidéo Noos), on the one hand, and Daniel Caclin, P - dg of Erenis, on the other hand. The first intervened this morning 30 November for the announcement of an offer 100 Mbps on the cable; the second was speaking yesterday morning November 29 at the Congress of the operators.

The two fibro-operators have in common a hungry strategy, i.e. Fiber-To-The-Building, which is to get the fibre optic cable to the nearest building to the Subscriber then reaching his home or his premises with, for Erenis, of the copper pair technology VDSL (Very high bit - rate DSL), and for Numéricâble, coaxial cable of the DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification). Unlike the ambitions displayed Free/CitéFibre (1 billion euros of investment) and to specify France Telecom (probably more than 3 billion) to make the FTTH on a large part of the France, Numéricâble and Erenis prefer to limit the cost of deployment. "Our connection per subscriber cost is less than 700 euros," said Patrick Drahi in les Echos. It is an expense less than that indicated by Daniel Caclin. In any case is well below the 2 000 euros per client on the network Irisé of SIPERREC or even the EUR 1 000 per customer acquired in CitéFibre, bought by Free, which was encrypted to 1,500 the cost per new customer connected.

Patrick Drahi held to remind that all Numéricâble network, inherited the "cable plan" and various acquisitions over the past three years , necessitated an investment for twenty years of 10 billion euros to which he added today each year "several million euros to bring fibre to the building." Meanwhile, Daniel Caclin recalled that Arcep felt with Idate ex nihilo to a network deployment national all-fiber to EUR 30 billion. As the report of Idate on very high flow, considers that "the cost of deploying FTTH networks scale is very high: more than 10 billion euros for a greenfield to cover 40 of the French population". What it may, Numéricâble as Erenis themselves still ready to meet the demands of FTTH. Patrick Drahi told les Echos that "the extra cost for a customer that absolutely optical fiber home is less than 150 euros". Daniel Caclin, he indicated that this additional cost all-optical "will be 200 to 300 euros by subscribers". Today, Erenis will reach 10,000 subscribers at the end of the year (present in the Paris region). Numéricâble has, overall, 4.5 million subscribers including 3.5 million in television, 0.7 million in Internet access and 0.3 million on the phone.