Toulouse: a street still not connected to Internet fiber, 10 years after the start of the deployment
Several families in the Borderouge district in Toulouse, who live in the impasse Louisa Paulin, have never been connected to the Internet. They receive a very low speed ADSL, and they have been promised fiber for several years … The adjacent streets, they are connected.
While the departmental council promises fiber in all homes, even in the most remote areas of Haute-Garonne by the end of 2022 or 2023, and that the massive deployment began in Toulouse for more than 10 years, some housing are not yet connected. Worse, they don’t even have Internet access!
A very low ADSL speed, which does not allow you to navigate correctly …
This is particularly the case of Sylvie and her family, who live in the impasse Louisa Paulin, in the Borderouge district, in Toulouse. When Sylvie bought her new house in 2018, it had never been inhabited. She must therefore have the wires pulled for the telephone. For the Internet, she contacts the operators. The operator Free tells him in particular that it has an ADSL connection, but “between 0.5 and 5 mega theoretical speed”. Which is extremely low. In reality, Sylvie has 2 mega speeds, which does not even allow her to perform a search on a search engine, under normal conditions.
Sylvie has to telecommute for a large company … thanks to the 4G of her smartphone
She, like her husband and her son, are forced to connect to the Internet by sharing data, thanks to their smartphone and the 4G network. “I am teleworking, I work for a large public company, it’s very complicated. Sometimes 4G works great, and some days it’s horrible, nothing goes ”. But above all, Sylvie has been writing registered letters for three years to the operator Orange, in charge of deploying fiber in the city of Toulouse. And he is told that the fiber is coming soon …
“For three years, on me said that the fiber is coming …”
“Yes, it’s been three years since she arrived,” deplores Sylvie. The worst part is that at both ends of his street, the houses are connected to fiber. Chemin Pujibet and Rue André Etcheverlepo, the two streets which border the impasse Louisa Paulin, the inhabitants browse the Internet at very high speed. But the very high speed Internet does not arrive in the dead end… “I am told that Orange would like to pass the fiber overhead, using the existing electricity poles, and would wait for the authorization of ERDF, breathes Sylvie. . I don’t know what to do, who to talk to. “
Contacted by “La Dépêche du Midi”, the regional management of Orange indicates that it has no specific information on rue Louisa Paulin. She adds that 294,000 homes, or 86% of the total, have already been connected to fiber in Toulouse (including 278,000 by Orange), but that 48,000 remain to be connected. Mainly in suburban neighborhoods, like Sylvie’s. Who will certainly have to wait a little longer.