ADSL In Franc and Germany
I hope Alcatel is the supplier, and would be very disappointed otherwise.
(traduction by Alta Vista, sorry...
For French speakers afp.com
France Telecom soon will launch a high-speed Internet access Thursday 18 Mars 1999 - Paris 19h29 time PARIS (AFP) - France Telecom is on the point of offering to the Net surfers an access very high flow to Internet which will allow of surfer up to 200 times more quickly than currently.
The operator confirmed that it " soon " will subject to the Authority regulation telecommunications (ART) a tariff offer for the new technique ADSL (digital Asymmetric suscriber line), which makes it possible to reach at high speed Internet via the standard telephone network.
" We finally will return in the era of the Internet to high flow accessible to all ", according to the Secretary of State to Industry Christian Pierret in front of the Senate.
The ADSL, less expensive to implement than optical fibre, makes it possible to use the copper infrastructures of the telephone dating from the Seventies, while increasing their performance thanks to equipment placed on the local distribution frame and the modem of the subscriber
Result: the subscriber can telephone and surfer on the Web simultaneously and obtain fluid images vidéos. An extract of videos weighing 3 megabits met 14 minutes to be transmitted on a banal line of analog telephone, 6 minutes on a Numéris line and only 3 seconds on ADSL, with the theoretical maximum power.
The German operator Deutsche Telekom has just announced that he would start in April the marketing of the ADSL, underlined Mr. Pierret.
France Telecom launched several experiments. Since February-March, 400 subscribers of Mans and Nice can thus subscribe to the service " Wanadoo Netissimo " to 345 F, modem included/understood.
The ADSL offers a solution to the Net surfers who consume much and who do not have the possibility of reaching Internet via the cable, other solution of very fast access to the network.
France Telecom says itself ready to begin the deployment, but provided that the rule of the game is clarified: the operator fears that his installations are not used then for competition,
The operator is currently the only one with being able to deploy the ADSL, because it is in situation of monopoly on the local access.
" We are completely ready to rent this service with our competitors, but not question of tariffing it at a ridiculous price and of renewing the financial disaster of the plan cables ", recently underlined Nicolas Dufourcq, director of the Multimédia branch from France Telecom.
Of dimensioned sound, Cegetel is said ready to deploy the ADSL and to authorize the investments necessary as soon as the regulation authorizes it to reach until the catch of the subscriber, as it is the case for all the operators in Germany. A public consultation on the unbundling must be held in France in the current of the year. |
