You have to go to fiber optics? Distroxes benefit from the end of the ADSL

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Can we refuse optical fiber and stay in ADSL ?

You are satisfied with your current offer and do not want to change it for fiber optics ? Can we refuse optical fiber to stay in ADSL ? What are the conditions as a tenant or owner and what to do in the event of a dispute ? Is optical fiber compulsory ? Does it cost more ? All answers in this article.

• You have the right to refuse fiber If you want to keep your current offer and stay in ADSL.
• In the event of a change of offer, operators have a 100% fiber strategy With the exception of Bouygues which also continues to offer ADSL.
• An owner has the right to refuse fiber to its tenants in the event of legitimate reason.
• Fiber can be wise due to Internet flows offered, for a price sometimes equivalent to ADSL.

Do I have the right to stay in ADSL even if I am eligible for fiber ?

The answer is yes ! Indeed, each supplier needs theAccord of its customers To install the fiber. You are totally entitled to tell your Internet access provider you want stay in adsl Even if you are eligible for optical fiber.

On the other hand, you will be forced to go to fiber in certain situations. This is particularly the case:

• You move to a fiber -eligible accommodation : in the event of a move, if your new accommodation is connected to fiber, the only offers offered will be internet fiber offers.
• You want to change your offer : If you want to benefit from another subscription and you are eligible for optical fiber, your supplier will only offer fiber offers.

An exception, however: while SFR, Orange and Free develop a 100% fiber strategy, Bouygues is the last operator to let the opportunity to take out an ADSL offer even when your eligibility test indicates that housing is compatible with fiber optic.

THE new buildings or renovations must be connected in fiber. If you move to a new house in a fibrated area, your operator will make you evolve towards a fiber offer. If you move to a condominium building, fiber optics must be passed during the general assembly of the trustee.

I want to stay in ADSL by changing my operator: how to do ?

Whether for Avoid carrying out work, Because the flows you benefit suits you, or for any other reason, you are entitled to want stay in adsl, Even if your accommodation is now eligible for optical fiber.

For this you can change operator In order to take out an offer from a supplier that does not offer fiber in your accommodation. It will therefore be enough for you to:

1. Go to the operator’s website in question.
2. Make a eligibility test Online when entering your postal address or landline number
3. Subscribe an adequate offer according to the result of your eligibility test, in this case an ADSL offer.

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If all internet service providers offer optical fiber in the area where your accommodation is, you will not have other solutions than Subscribe a fiber offer (or subscribe to the Bouygues ADSL, as explained above).

In which case is the optical fiber compulsory ?

Concretely, and to summarize, Optical fiber is compulsory If and only if your offer is not a Bbox and that you move Or Change supply in an accommodation eligible for SFR/Orange/Free fiber.

I am a tenant: can my owner refuse the installation of the fiber ?

The right to fiber according to the law

As a tenant, you are absolutely entitled to ask your landlord to have the fiber optics installed, this is called the right to fiber.

This right is defined according to article 1 of the Law No. 66-457 of July 2, 1966 (Order of July 12, 2014) : “The owner of a building cannot, notwithstanding any contrary convention, even previously concluded, to oppose without serious and legitimate reason for the connection to a network of very high speed electronic communications in fiber optic open to the public as well as to the Installation, maintenance or replacement of the necessary equipment, at the expense of one or more tenants or occupants in good faith.””

However, your accommodation must be fiber And you have to get theyour owner’s agreement To install fiber optics in your accommodation by an internet access provider. Your request must be sent to your landlord as a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt, by presenting the work which must be carried out.

What are the legal cases to refuse optical fiber ?

According to Decree n ° 2009-53 of January 15, 2009, An owner cannot refuse an installation request, except in these three cases:

1. The building where the accommodation is found is already fiber and the installation is already accessible to the tenant.
2. Fiber connection work in the building where the accommodation is located are already planned.
3. Any other reason for “serious and legitimate” refusal can be notified to the tenant, but none appears in the laws

In the event of refusal, the owner must send a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt in the 3 months following the request of his tenant to explain what his legitimate reason is. If the tenant receives no response within 6 months of his request to install the fiber optics, he can connect his accommodation without the owner of his owner.

What are the appeals if my owner refuses to install the fiber ?

In the event of refusal from the owner, the tenant can appeal in order to revise the decision and refuse. The call must be made within 30 days of refusal, by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt.

In general, if the refusal is one of the legitimate reasons stated in decree n ° 2009-53, the refusal will be accepted. Conversely, if the owner refuses for a reason that is not part of the decree, you will get successful and you can have fiber optics installed in the accommodation.

If no agreement has been reached 6 months later, the tenant, as the owner can enter the Court.

Go to fiber: what are the advantages ?

The end of the ADSL network by 2030

If stay in adsl proves to be entirely possible, be aware that Internet access providers put everything in place so that all households are eligible for fiber since the launch of the Very high speed France plan in 2013.

Therefore, the more the years pass, the more the fiber extends and the more the copper network tends to disappear. To be able to continue to take advantage of your connection when the ADSL network will no longer exist, you will have to subscribe to a fiber offer in the long term. However, ADSL technology should not end before 2030.

More powerful fiber flows

Optical fiber allows you to enjoy a downhill internet speed and an internet speed amount much more powerful. This allows you to download files faster, surf Internet without jerk or cut, or even control your Connected objects from a distance.

The table below allows you to analyze the differences between the amounts and descendant flows of each technology. As you can see, fiber optics offers flow rates until 40 times faster.

ADSL vs fiber: what are the rates offered ?

ADSL	Fiber
Minimum descending speed	1 Mbit/s	300 Mbit/s
Maximum descending speed	15-20 Mbit/s	8 Gbit/s
Minimum amount	Less than 1 Mbit/s	100 Mbit/s
Maximum amount	8 Mbit/s	1 Gbit/s

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Fiber offers at very attractive prices

You wish stay in adsl To pay cheaper ? If this can sometimes be the case, a fiber offer is on the contrary often offered to a attractive price, This allows you to take advantage of better speeds for an often equivalent, even more affordable price than with ADSL.

Here are several internet offers offered in ADSL or fiber so that you can compare the price of each.

Selection of telecom offers, classified by increasing price the first 12 months. Free SEO.

As you can see, most of the time, internet access providers offer a slightly higher fiber price than ADSL. SFR offers, for example, its SFR Starter fiber offer to € 34.99/month excluding promotion.

It also happens that the proposed price is the same only the first year. This is particularly the case of Orange, which offers its livebox offer at € 24.99/month in ADSL or fiber. In the following years, the fiber offer is slightly more expensive, namely € 42.99/month against € 38.99/month ADSL. Bouygues Telecom operates on the same principle, and markets its offer at € 26.99/month (super promo !)) the first year then to € 37.99/month in ADSL and € 41.99/month fiber.

The Sosh box is also offered at Same price the first year. However, in ADSL version, it remains at a price of € 20.99/month, while it increases to € 30.99/month for fiber subscribers. This is the same principle at Red by SFR.

As for Free, the operator does not No price difference For its adsl or fiber subscribers.

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Updated on 09/15/2023

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Do you have to go to fiber optics ? Distroxes benefit from the end of the ADSL

If you are called to announce that you must absolutely go to fiber optics … Be careful, these are certainly fraudulent calls.

Orange will stop marketing its ADSL offers from 2023. The historic operator has also announced that the copper network will cease to be used by 2030. This end of service will be progressive and will depend on two elements: ” the deployment of optical fiber and the migration of customers to VoIP »». A big project that attracts profiteers.

As Univers Freebox points out, there are many reports of fraudulent calls, the objective of which is to encourage us in the passage to fiber optic ” next month »». The alarming message indicates that you can even lose your internet connection … The objective, for these profiteers, is to sell fiber optic subscriptions, they certainly come from a third -party reseller who has an agreement with an internet service provider.

Orange, via Véronique Fontaine, responsible for relations with local communities at Orange Nîmes, conforms that it was false, ” Yes, this is the end of this network, but not at the Hussarde »». In other words: there is no question, for the moment, of obliging customers to go to fiber optics. The subscriptions will no longer be offered in 2023, unless no fiber optics option is available, while the technical stop should not start before 2025.

Do you have to go to fiber optics ?

For the moment, all suppliers need their customers’ agreement to install fiber optics. This means that you are completely entitled to tell your Internet access provider that you want to stay in ADSL even if you are eligible for fiber optics.

On the other hand, there are cases where the optical fiber will be imposed on you: if your accommodation is already connected to the fiber optics, or if you change the offer and your accommodation is eligible for fiber optics. Except for Bouygues Telecom which still offers the choice of technology.

On what date will fiber be deployed in my town ?

The objectives set by the government within the framework of the current very high speed France plan are to guarantee very high speed for all by the end of 2022 and an access mainly to optical fiber to the subscriber (FTTH) to The horizon 2025.

Internet and fiber access: News

• During the second quarter of 2023, the slowdown in deployments and the progression of fiber optic subscriptions continue. arcep.FR, September 7, 2023.
• ARCEP (regulatory authority for electronic communications, positions and distribution of the press) publishes a step assessment on the work relating to the quality of fiber optic networks. July 6, 2023.
• End of the copper network: is your company eligible for fiber optics ? – public service.FR, June 27, 2023
• The historic copper network, which provides the phone, internet and television, will gradually disappear in favor of fiber optics. public service.FR, June 19, 2023.

The deployment of fiber (FTTH) is done as and when in the territory. To learn about this deployment, and in particular whether a specific city is or will soon be connected to the fiber, you can consult the website of theArcep (Regulatory authority for electronic communications, posts and distribution of the press) and in particular the Interactive map of the deployment of fiber in France.

From this card, it is possible to do a search on a city or on a specific address.

The card can then be viewed in main views and indicates in particular the Fiber deployment rate in the town (legend which indicates the rate of deployment of fiber as a function of color) orFiber deployment state at a specific address.

To obtain more details on a particular municipality, it is necessary to switch to advanced view mode (frame to the right of the card). From this mode, you have several different views and in particular the “forecast view”. Attention : Arcep indicates that forecast view is temporarily disabled.

Details on the features and information provided are available in the tab ” Information »To the left of the card .

When click on the town in advanced view mode, a window indicates the name of the infrastructure operator responsible for the deployment of fiber. Details can be obtained from this operator to find out the level of deployment. Town halls can also inform users.

It is also possible to visualize whether the deployment of the fiber has been carried out in a specific building by zooming on the map.

By tilting on the “DEBITS AT address” card (top right), it is possible to obtain for a specific address, Internet operators, technologies and available flows.

In addition, ARCEP offers, via its 5G deployment observatory, to follow commercial deployments in 5G and 4G+, to inform elected officials and citizens of the arrival of 5G on their territory. The cover cards of the various operators are available.

Optical fiber zones: financial aid
In certain areas not yet equipped with fiber optics and whose ADSL network is insufficient, access to high speed Internet must go through a relatively expensive wireless connection, partly compensated by a subsidy of 150 euros for individuals and businesses. As announced in a press release of February 5, 2022, this aid went, from April 1, 2022, to 300 euros and will be able to reach 600 euros, depending on the resources of the home concerned.
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To know more

• Digital infrastructure and regional planning – Economic and social impacts of the very high speed France plan – France Strategy Report, January 2023
• How to ask for the installation of fiber optics for my rental ? – anil.Org, September 13, 2022
• The file dedicated to fiber on the Arcep website
• Other information on the deployment of fiber is available on the Amenagement-Numerique site.gouv.Fr
• Optical fiber connection: are you eligible ? – economy.gouv.Fr