French senator proposes law change to improve fibre optic rollout
The French state should be responsible for connecting homes to the fibre optic network, not private companies, says senator Patrick Chaize
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The French state should be responsible for connecting homes to the fibre optic network, not private companies, says senator Patrick Chaize
The French telecoms regulator wants to add information about data centres and consumer devices to its sustainability audit for the digital sector.
VISIONARY No. 5 Patrick Chaize co-drafted the Continent’s first bill to tackle the tech sector’s environmental impact. Quietly adopted by senators in January, the text made massive waves when it hit the French lower house in the spring. Chaize first became a senator in 2014. He’s a member of conservative party Les Républicains, which holds the majority in the Senate, and is identified as an expert on tech and telecoms issues in the upper house. A critic of the country’s leading telecoms operator Orange, one of his main political battles is to ensure that rural areas have high-speed i...