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The long awaited French Digital Plan 2012, whose launch is supposed to propel France into the 21st century, has been overshadowed by the financial crisis. French President Nicholas Sarkozy left it Eric Besson, a Minister whose responsibility is the development of the Digital Economy, to present a long list of 154 action items, at the Palais de l’Elysée, home of the French President.

Besson is one of the architects of the plan, which took many months to prepare. For Besson, the…

ARCEP, the French regulator, recently published on its website a set of documents and information about “sharing fiber to the home”. After about 18 months of investigation, trials, technical discussions and assessments, ARCEP concluded that one of the critical conditions for rapid deployment of fiber networks is a set of guidelines for operators, installers, owners and users to share the fiber local loop.

“To deploy a new local loop is an technical, economical and a competitive challenge for France,“ an ARCEP…

As France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to launch a long awaited Digital Plan within a couple of weeks, the UK is now looking into playing a more active role in shaping broadband policies. “This does not translate into subsidies or structural changes in regulation, but rather a set of initiatives that could support and inform the activity of regulators,” says a detailed report made by Francesco Caio, at the request of Shriti Vadera Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Business…

Viviane Reding, EU telecom commissioner, is launching a public consultation on Next Generation Access (NGA) networks. The public consultation will be open for comment until 14 November 2008. Its goal is to provide guidance to the national regulatory authorities on how to facilitate the rapid emergence of fiber to the home networks (FTTH) in Europe with the EU Regulatory Framework.

A review of the European Regulatory Framework for telecommunications has been taking place since the beginning of the year and its…

At a meeting of the French Committee for Public Initiative Networks (Comité des Réseaux d’Initiative Publique or CRIP) in the restored Amphitheater of Le Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Paul Champsaur, President of ARCEP, the French regulator, said that municipal and regional governments will be at the forefront of deployments of very high-speed broadband infrastructure in France — for both fixed and wireless access.

“For the last four years, the CRIP has created the conditions for a constructive dialog between local…

The city of Lafayette, Louisiana, and the LaFayette Utilities System (LUS) have completed the sale of $110.4 million in bonds to finance that city’s Fiber to the Home and Business project. This clears the way to start the deployment.The city of Lafayette, Louisiana, and the LaFayette Utilities System (LUS) have completed the sale of $110.4 million in bonds to finance that city’s Fiber to the Home and Business project. This clears the way to start the deployment.

“The fact that investors…