The highest in Europe might be Romania, 96% fiber coverage due to the late buildout of Internet infra.
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/romania-beats-germa...
France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
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#142And here is my house, I pay $300 just to get 300 mbit downspeed and 10mb upload speed. can government STOP this fucking spectrum(Charter Communications) monopoly.
Spectrum was ok where I live, but Cox has faster upload speeds, so I switched. Spectrum acquired Cox about a week after I did that.
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#143It's pretty insane. Our family has a holiday home in a fairly mountainous region in central-southern France. Dwindling population, no major tourist activity, wine production. We'd long suffered the worst imaginable 56k but in 2018, the local ISP just ran fibre out to everyone . I think the current service is cheaper than the 56k was too, and far cheaper than any of the 4/5G options back then. What I mean (vis á vis i…
>Our area is never going to generate the return on internet alone for the isp? maybe. for the gdp? well, i imagine that a lot of highly paid remote labor would love to be located in rural France.
Isn't starlink and its competitors a cheaper way for rural places to get fast internet?
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really a big issue. Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap, either done by default in new constructions, or on demand for older houses. ISP's hardware to run PON is cheap. Once street level fiber deployment is done, whether market penetration follows or not isn't a huge deal.
> Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap Check the France map. This is cheap in densely populated areas, like cities. It isn't in mountainous areas with just small groups of houses like in the middle of the country.
Pretty irrelevant to the last meter, and most ISPs do it for free when you subscribe as they can re-use conduits and sheaths for the legacy copper line, otherwise it's typically a few hours of work.
Re: France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
#145why is there such clear empty region in the middle? some regional governance thing? also why is Brittany so much worse than rest of the country, despite having relatively high pop density
Check the "Débit à l'adresse" alternative map: it shows every home, and so population density.
Re: France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
#146Spain is at 96.79% (June 2025), up from 94.79% a year before. See [0] I think France and Spain are the best of the big European countries regarding coverage, but also adoption: If we look at the adoption ranking globally, Spain sits fourth at 90%, behind the UAE, China and South Korea and ahead of France at 83.6%. Very few European countries convert coverage into subscriptions that efficiently, and I think it's drive…
In Italy we are at 78% of addresses covered. That doesn't mean automatically that one gets fiber. First at all, if someone doesn't need to download heavy stuff and has a good coverage a 5G SIM with unlimited data (something you can get for 10/15 euros a month) is cheaper than a fiber connection (that starts from 25 euros). Second a lot of people has still FTTC even if it has FTTH, mostly because FTTC offers a speed t…
> In Italy we are at 78% of addresses covered
Complete bullshit.
BUL maybe is close to that percentage
P1G is nowhere near and is never going to reach full coverage in 2030.
Re: France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
#147It's pretty insane. Our family has a holiday home in a fairly mountainous region in central-southern France. Dwindling population, no major tourist activity, wine production. We'd long suffered the worst imaginable 56k but in 2018, the local ISP just ran fibre out to everyone . I think the current service is cheaper than the 56k was too, and far cheaper than any of the 4/5G options back then. What I mean (vis á vis i…
(1) communities have already committed to universal service for electricity which uses the same poles and (2) fiber investments are good for at least 50 years and are much cheaper in reality than the usual ROI metrics say they are; the awkward truth is that the LTE networks that carriers were gung ho to invest in were outrageously expensive in comparison but carriers were fine with that because they could charge an arm and two legs for it.
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#148Welcome to the club! Here in Spain we hit this milestone last year. It really is pretty incredible, compared to the state of rural broadband coverage in countries that haven't put in this level of investment...
Re: France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
#149It's pretty insane. Our family has a holiday home in a fairly mountainous region in central-southern France. Dwindling population, no major tourist activity, wine production. We'd long suffered the worst imaginable 56k but in 2018, the local ISP just ran fibre out to everyone . I think the current service is cheaper than the 56k was too, and far cheaper than any of the 4/5G options back then. What I mean (vis á vis i…
There is some of that in the US due to government subsidies. People have stories about making their own ISPs in rural parts. But it's not 94.9% fiber.
Re: France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
#150It's pretty insane. Our family has a holiday home in a fairly mountainous region in central-southern France. Dwindling population, no major tourist activity, wine production. We'd long suffered the worst imaginable 56k but in 2018, the local ISP just ran fibre out to everyone . I think the current service is cheaper than the 56k was too, and far cheaper than any of the 4/5G options back then. What I mean (vis á vis i…
Glad that France built it out now. From now on the fibers price will rise significantly like HBM, NAND chips, power line transformers due to the AI boom.
Any evidence of this happening? I imagine that fiber manufacturing is much easier to scale up than chip manufacturing (of course, the devices that attach to the fiber might be a different story).