Individual house optical fiber connection: request, work and price

Note that if you are a tenant, Your landlord cannot oppose the connection of your home fiber optics. However, it is preferable to keep it informed, to avoid any dispute during the inventory of exit, in view of the modifications made to your home.

Right to fiber: what law between tenant and owner ?

In France, access to fiber optics must be generalized to a large majority of homes by 2030. For people living in already eligible areas and wishing to have fiber at their home, these are protected by the “right to fiber”. Find out in detail in this article what the law says on this subject, your owners’ obligations or the procedure to follow according to the type of housing you occupy.

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Right to fiber of the tenant: how to obtain the installation of fiber at home ?

Case of accommodation rented in condominiums

You live in an apartment in a condominium ? To seize the opportunity tohave fiber at home, It is essential that you contact your landlord. You must expressly ask him to speak to the trustee to bring to the agenda of the next general meeting the subject of theFiber installation in the condominium building. To be admissible, your request must be made by registered mail and sent to your lessor. If it finally receives the acceptance of the owners’ union, it must, with your lessor, take care of the process to sign the quote from the connection of the building to the fiber optics. You will of course have the choice of the Internet access provider (ISP) to which you wish Subscribe a fiber subscription. The ISP will finally connect your apartment to the shared network of your street.

Without serious and legitimate reason, The trustee cannot oppose your wish to install fiber optics in your condominium accommodation. The only reasons for legally valid refusal are the presence of fiber network lines or the planning of an upcoming deployment of fiber in your neighborhood.

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Case of accommodation rented in individual house

If the fiber does not arrive even at home and that a fiber network is already deployed in your municipality, your owner cannot give an unfavorable response to your request for the installation of the fiber. The presence or absence of the fiber in the house you rent is information that you can read by leafing through the contract of your lease. The first thing to check before not warning your owner of your request is theFiber eligibility of your residential area. You can test your fiber eligibility on the site of each FAI. You want to know the state of deployment of fiber in your town and know, in short, when the fiber will arrive at home ? You can consult the Arcep interactive fiber card to find out more.

Good to know: according to the ISP which you will subscribe to a fiber offer, whether it is your current supplier or a competitor, the Fiber eligibility test is precise: it allows you to know what type of fiber your home can be connected: fiber to the home (ftth), fiber to the last amplifier (fttla) or fiber to the building (fttb).

To put it simply, if you live in a detached house, in a district eligible for fiber optics, The owner-lessor cannot oppose your wish to have fiber at home and must access your request favorably. The only case where your landlord is in his right to refuse, it is if you live in a commune that is not fiber. However, you can inform it so that it will send your request to the nearest IS.

Once acted between your landlord and you, the Fiber connection of your home may require more or less expensive work. If this is the case, you must obtain a description of the steps required for this work to present in detail the work plan to your owner. After having obtained the authorization of the lessor, it is himself who is in charge of finance the work and to contact an operator so that you have a fully fiberly connection.

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Right to fiber: what does the law say ? Do I need my owner’s authorization to install the fiber ?

THE right to fiber guarantees each resident the right to be able to access the very high speed (by notifying it to the owner or the trustee), mainly by preventing the owner from opposing the connection of his accommodation (except for a legitimate and serious reason, which must be notified at the latest 3 months after the tenant’s request).

The right to fiber thus obliges the owner to motivate any refusal of installation, and this within deadlines and for specific reasons.

THE two main legitimate and serious reasons are :

• that the accommodation is already connected to fiber ;
• or that the connection of the building is already planned.

You will find all the details within the Decree n ° 2009-53 of January 15, 2009.

This right is therefore an additional incentive to the other means of pressure put in place to accelerate the overall deployment of very high speed in the territory. It complements the government pressures exerted on operators and public authorities, those of local authorities on operators that have committed to deploy very high speed within specific time or on companies in charge of work. etc. Now tenants can therefore also put pressure on recalcitrant owners by using their law.

Note that the right to fiber will not allow you to oblige an internet service provider to connect your neighborhood, the deployment of networks by operators remains free. So you will not be able to assert your right to fiber If the ISP has not planned the localized development of the fiber network for now. If you are in non -eligible areas where the neighborhood has not yet been connected, you will have to be patient or try to put pressure on your turn. your local elected officials.

Owner, tenant or operator: who must pay the fiber connection ?

Now that you know that you legally benefit from a right to fiber, provided that your accommodation is located at an eligible location, you may wonder who must pay this installation. The answer is unequivocal: the equipment of a fiber optic building is the operator’s expense, and not the tenant or the owner.

What you need to remember: Neither the owner nor the tenant (so you) should not pay the slightest penny for fiber connection. It is the Internet operator who must bear in their entirety the costs of the fiber installation. The cost includes the equipment, the installation fixed by appointment and the maintenance of the fiber network.

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Very high speed and sdtan France plan: public initiatives that support the right to fiber

THE Deployment of fiber optics has been talked about a lot since the launch of Very high speed France plan. Having become a real national competitiveness issue, it should allow all French people to access very high speed. However, there are still many obstacles to achieve total coverage of the territory, which should not a priori be effective before 2030 at the earliest. In the meantime, the largest cities for the most part already have first access to very high speed, and work is underway throughout the territory.

Difficult to coordinate deployment at the national level: it is the departments (or sometimes the regions) which have set up deployment plans (formalized in the form of a Sdtan)). An SDTAN is a territorial digital management scheme, report registered with ARCEP. This report lists electronic communication infrastructures and networks, and locates areas where they are developed and/or developing. The aim of an SDTAN is strategic for local authorities, which then have a simplified schematic vision of the Internet networks already installed, non -covered white areas and high speed deployment prospects to better cover the territory.

According to the typology of the town, the Optical fiber connection work can thus either be taken care of by operators or by public authorities. This deployment is then complicated on a case -by -case basis, as the interests of each actor can diverge according to each installation. This is why the legislator established a “right to fiber” in order to guarantee equal access to very high speed to each citizens.

Updated on 06/21/2023

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Individual house optical fiber connection: request, work and price

You have just moved to a detached house and want to install the fiber optics there ? It will then be necessary to follow these 3 steps: test your fiber eligibility, subscribe to an offer, then proceed to the fiber connection of your home. It will be necessary to carry out work within your home in order to be able to install the fiber optics. How the eligibility of your home at fiber ? How is the technician’s intervention going ? What is the price of the fiber in -house connection ? Discover everything about FTTH optical fiber connection in individual house.

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First step: test the fiber eligibility of your new or old house

To connect your house to fiber, you must first make sure that it is good fiber, Whether new or old. You can then carry out the fiber connection work.

Indeed, the fiber covers today 34.6 million French households (March 2023), but there are still certain areas in which it is not deployed. It is therefore essential to carry out an online eligibility test or by phone to ensure that you can take out a fiber offer for your home.

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All operators use FTTH fiber fiber technology (Fiber to the Home, or fiber to the home), with the exception of SFR which still offers fiber FTTLA fiber offers (Fiber to the Last Amplifier, or fiber to the last amplifier ) via its THD boxes. You want to test your eligibility by phone ? Contact a fiber optics advisor and let yourself be guided in order to take advantage of the partner offer best suited to your needs.

Optical fiber connection of a single or underground individual house

• Air connection : the optical connection point can be located in height. In this case, the technician will proceed to an aerial fiber connection by piercing a hole just above your front door, so that you can transport the cable inside your home.
• Underground connection : the optical connection point can also be located under your house. The technician will then use the existing ducts of your telephone line to connect the cable to your home.

Note that if you are a tenant, Your landlord cannot oppose the connection of your home fiber optics. However, it is preferable to keep it informed, to avoid any dispute during the inventory of exit, in view of the modifications made to your home.

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Installation of fiber in your house

Once the technician has drawn the cable to your home, he will then have to link it to your optical termination point (PTO), located in your home.

THE Pto is the grip where your box will be connected, a bit like your telephone socket. You will choose this place with the technician. For Improve image quality and sound for television, you must install your socket Next to your TV. If you prefer a best speed on your computer fixed thanks to an Internet connection by Ethernet cable, You can install your socket next to it and thus avoid a wifi connection.

This is a white box that the technician generally installs in your living room, Close to your equipment, to be able to connect fiber to your network. Cables will be installed in plinths or in sheaths already installed.

When this work is carried out, the technician takes care of the various connections and the start -up of your devices within your home. He will also make a debit test To confirm that everything works perfectly well.

Be careful in an old house, the technician will have to use the France Telecom cable of your house and will have to Find the cable and the associated case, which can sometimes be more delicate in this type of house. Indeed, the technician does not have the plan of the passage of cables at home: it can then be necessary to pull a new sheath or contact an electrician.

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What is the price of fiber optical connection in individual house ?

The price of work varies according to operators, But several factors can influence the cost of the intervention:

• The passage by air can cost more than under to underground
• There fiber length used can also increase the price. You must be informed beforehand about the total price of this intervention.
• Also ask if the connection of your computer or wifi configuration are good included in the price Basic: your agreement is necessary for any supplement to the expected price.

Payment is generally made with the next bill. Some suppliers may install as a commercial gesture, especially if you were already a customer at home. Do not hesitate to find out about the offers of your current Internet operator. Free and Orange operators offer free fiber connection.

Here is a summary table of the price of the fiber connection for the 4 major French operators:

First 10 free meters then:

Unlike FTTH fiber, FTTLA fiber (Fiber to the Last amplifier or “Fiber to the last amplifier”) allows you to avoid work and reduce costs: fiber Streets and stops at the bottom of your house Then arrives in your home by connecting with the copper network. On the other hand, a hybrid offer is not Not as fast as a 100% fiber offer, And Only SFR still offers FTTLA fiber offers via its THD boxes.

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