A shrewd mobilisation for high debit

How does it come about that an electricity syndicate becomes interested in telecommunications and equips the 257,000 companies and the three million inhabitants of the inner Paris suburbs with a competitive high debit service (thanks to the fibre optic infrastructure called IRISÉ) and with zero investment from the 80 communes affected ? A concession contract was signed in 2001 with the company LDcable. The infrastructure, measuring 278 kilometres, was installed in one year and has been operational since September 2002. The investment of 29 million Euros is payable by LDcable. This is a clever way of reducing costs, carrying out the least amount of civil engineering possible, and using all the existing ducts underground. This venture is one of the very first carried out by an authority in France for digital town and country planning.