Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The French government plans for all households to have access to broadband Internet by 2012 and will assign some wireless frequencies freed by the phase-out of analog television to high-speed Web access.
Eric Besson, state secretary of forward planning, outlined the plan in a presentation in Paris today. Operators' current targets to cover in excess of 95 percent of the population would leave 1 million to 2 million households without high-speed Internet, the government said.
``Fair broadband access must be offered to all of the French households,'' according to the government report. ``The digital economy is the main factor in increased competitiveness in the developed economies.''
The government will seek bids next year for companies to provide universal access to high-speed Internet, starting Jan. 1, 2010. Candidates will have to offer every French household Internet access at speeds of more than 512 kilobits per second at a price of less than 35
euros ($46.78) a month.
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