A useful reminder for those sites.
I’m struggling to translate the phrase “Vue des zones arrière de PM” though.
Those were the 2 maps I checked initially. They still both show it is not available - the first one only mentions ADSL and the second one says it’s programmed. Puzzlingly, the Orange and Sosh ones say it’s available. I shall have a chat with my neighbours…
I think that means that a study has been done and that infrastructure either will be or is being installed. In that case it could be up to 18 months before it’s ready to order.
tbh that’s a big topic in F and not just Orange or even telecoms generally. Am still learning but it seems F bsnks can have that kind of finger pointed at them as well.
The thing is, due to the EU there is still largely similar sorts of protections for consumers here and in the UK. But business after business seems to thumb their nose at what in UK would be normal consumer rights. Protective legislation does seem to be here, but actually getting redress impossible.
The infrastructure has been installed - it happened a long time ago. The puzzle for me is why I would received an SMS from Orange telling me that it is now avaiable, and the Sosh website also shows it’s available, but the sites with maps don’t. I shall investigate…
EDIT: Bouygues say its avaibale too.
Check for the dates on the map. Some of them are only updated once or twice a year.
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That would make sense @_Brian . It’s fairly clear from the texts that fibre is only available from the last week
Hurrah! for that. My address shows as ‘currently under deployment’. Just as it has for the last 3 years 
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Fingers crossed that it’s out of date then! 
The arcep maps give the date they were last updated. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the underlying data might not be out of date 
For us, the infrastructure had been in place for over 12 months before it could be ordered. I kept an eye on what was happening and couldn’t believe it took so long.
In which case, you’ll almost certainly be able to pick from several providers.
With the Bouygues installer we had, he was very happy to use the same attachment point on the house as our landline and follow existing cabling around the corner to an existing hole into the room where my PC sits.
I went to the effort of feeding a length of strimmer line out through the hole so he merely had to tape the fibre cable to it and pull it inside. He even sealed the hole with mastic when he was done.
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That’s what I’ve got.
Getting around 200 mbps.
My Orange subbie did all of that and between us we decided on a much better place in the house to relocate it. The previous place was no longer the best.
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I can’t believe I’m still writing about this!
We were supposed to have our landline fixed tomorrow. We’ve been without a phone since 18th September. But we have just received an SMS from Orange to say that ‘rest assured, your service will be in operation on 11th December’.
I don’t know how many times we’ve had the ‘rest assured’ message - too many for my liking.
What worries me is that we are supposed to have fibre connected next Monday. The installers did come a couple of weeks ago but went away because ‘there is a problem with your line’ is what we were told and we have had to wait for this new RDV.
I know I seem to do nothing but rant about this but it really is beginning to grate. They’ve had the cheek to send another invoice too!
Anyway, just wanted to say that Stuart and I are not happy bunnies at the moment. We try to remain positive about it. And we dont’ think the answer is to change supplier. Better the devil you know comes into mind. Some of you will think we are crazy. Maybe we are but we will stick with Orange and get to the end of this sorry saga.
We’ll keep you updated.
We were supposed to have an RDV with Orange for fibre end of September. It keeps getting cancelled - now scheduled for 4 Dec.
We had fibre when we lived in the UK (Sheffield) up to 6 years ago and got 100 mbps - yes it’s fast compared to our current 15 mbps - and compared to our 56k modem back in 1997…
Rather expect a negative result as our current phone line is underground for a good 70m from the main road - am hoping they can run fibre to the box on the main road and continue to use the copper cable from thereon. Virgin cable used to do this regularly in Sheffield- fibre to the junction box, ADSL into the house.
I think I need to mention that when I used a speed checker this evening, it showed 1111Mbps download.
I find you are all much better- (and younger-) looking in high speed fibre.
Bragging won’t get you anywhere 
This is what I get chez moi in the UK
OK, it’s not 1Gbps because I genuinely think 500Mbps is fast enough and 500Mb/s is cheaper - yes, some game updates can be > 100GB but the difference between downloading 100GB at 500Mbps vs 100GB at 1Gbps is just 13 minutes. In any case the WiFi connections or Powerline connections that form the last hop to my son’s Xbox or PC are normally the limiting factor, rather than the internet speed.
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For an individual house that will not be the case - it’s all FTTH (Fibre To The Home) here.
The last 130m of my fibre is underground on private land (I put the ducts in 20 years ago with regards in all the right places) & myself & the fibre installer managed to get it pulled through without too much trouble.
I currently have 70 Mbps and that’s fast enough to stream 4K movies from Amazon/Disney etc over wifi.
I think having the extra speed/bandwidth would help if you have a household where several people are doing that all at once though (e.g. with teenagers and multiple TVs / devices).