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France: FTTH 82 % of fixed internet subscriptions
French regulator Arcep has
published its scorecard for
the fixed broadband and
superfast broadband market
in France as of the end of
December 2025.
As of December 31
2025, 42.4m households
in France were passed for
fibre, representing 94.3 %
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coverage. Close to 2.6m
premises still remain to be
passed.
The pace in FTTH
deployment slowed once
again in Q4 2025, as
rollouts in multiple regions
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near completion: 395,000 additional households were passed during the quarter, or 42 % fewer than in Q4 2024.
150,000 additional premises in lower density, public-initiative areas were rendered eligible for FTTH access, with 1,210,000 premises remaining to be covered.
190,000 additional premises in lower density, private-initiative areas were rendered eligible for FTTH access, with 840,000 premises remaining to be covered.
15,000 additional premises were passed for FttH in those areas covered by calls for expressions of local interest( called‘ zones
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AMEL’ in French), with 60,000 premises remaining to be covered.
40,000 additional premises in very high-density areas were passed for FTTH, with 460,000 premises remaining to be covered.
As of 31 December 2025, 43.2 million households were covered by fixed ultrafast services( FttH, VDSL2, cable), or 96 % of all households in France.
At the end of 2025, in those parts of the country where the Government has issued a call for investment letters of intent( zones AMII):
• around 96 % of the premises for which Orange has made a commitment had been made eligible for fibre access;
• and around 98 % of those
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in municipalities where SFR has made a commitment had been made eligible for fibre access. As of end December 2025, 27.1m internet subscriptions in France were to a fibre( FTTH) plan, or 82 % of all fixed plan subscriptions.
Subscriptions to fibre plans grew by 740,000 in Q4 2025, identical to the rate of growth in Q4 2024. The number of FttH subscriptions thus stood at 27.1m at the end of December 2025, which represents 82 % all internet subscriptions and 93 % of all superfast internet subscriptions. Ten years ago, FTTH subscription numbers totalled 1.4m, or 5 % of total internet subscriptions in France.
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