In an interview given to Télégramme, Philippe Chanclou, fiber innovation team manager at Orange, says that the operator is already working on the deployment of a 10 Gb / s Internet offer. However, with the recent release of Livebox 6 and its maximum speed of 2 Gb/s, it is very likely that subscribers will have to wait several more months, or even years. Meanwhile, the competition has already drawn its offers.
Orange has long offered boxes with a speed limited to 1 Gb/s per second. When fiber was launched, this figure was more than satisfactory for users, but today the cards are redistributed. The incumbent operator is well aware of this, since it launched a 2 Gb/s offer with its Livebox 5. Then, with the launch of the Livebox 6, the latter finally offers a fully usable 2.5 Gb/s port. , ending the shared throughput of its older models.
This milestone now crossed, it is time for Orange to think about what to do next. And the ambitions are there: “Today, fiber offers a speed of around one gigabit. The next step is the arrival and massive deployment of 10 gigs at home“Said Philippe Chanclou, fiber innovation team manager at Orange, to the Breton daily Le Télégramme. As for the deployment date, that’s another story.
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Indeed, the Libebox 6 has just been launched, it is easy to imagine that we will have to be patient to see the 10 Gb / s of speed land in the Orange offers. Unfortunately for subscribers, Philippe Chanclou confirms these fears. He specifies that such a speed is not available before “a few months, a few years on the Orange France network. »
“In the long term, the objective is for the whole of France to be eligible for 10 gigabyte offers. The technologies are ready. We are in the learning and testing phases”, he continues. The bad news is that the competition has already drawn its offers. Free and SFR both display 10 Gb/s offers in their catalog. Orange subscribers, for their part, may not appreciate having to wait a few more years.
Source: The Telegram