1st February  Postal sector
ARCEP by the way of a public consultation (up to the 1 St March), presents an analysis which bears on the accounting rules of La Poste, in particular those which reflect the effect of the weight and format of postal items on the costs of postal processes / The Public consultation

18th January  Optical fibre
ARCEP's decision on the terms and methods for deploying and accessing ultra high-speed optical fibre electronic communications lines in very densely populated areas has been published in the Official Journal of 17 January 2010 / Press release

15th January  4G
ARCEP publishes an executive summary of the public consultation on the future award of spectrum licences in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz frequency bands, for the deployment of ultra high-speed mobile networks / Press release

15th January  Digital regional development

A public policy at the heart of the action of the regulator : digital regional development. The first issue of the new quarterly magazine "Les Cahiers de l'ARCEP" (which is a continuation of "The Letter of Authority"), was released yesterday evening 14 January at the Sorbonne on the occasion of the ARCEP's happy new year wishes ceremony, opens whith one of the major tasks of the regulator. Along with many personalities like Neelie Kroes or Stephen Timms, the Authority makes the point, from various angles, the actions of governments, operators and local authorities in regions, overseas and abroad, to improve mobile coverage, accelerate the deployment of broadband and prepare for the arrival of high speed fixed and mobile. / The pdf file of the first Les cahiers de l'ARCEP are availbale (in French) in high definition (27 MB) or standard format (10MB). A pdf version accessible to the visually impaired is in progress.

11th January  High-speed and ultra high-speed figures (retail and wholesale market) - 3rd quarter 2009
As of 30 September 2009, there were 19.145 million high-speed and ultra high-speed internet subscriptions in France. High-speed is estimated to 255 000 subscriptions, including 60 000 in fiber-to-home or buildings and 195 000 in optical fiber with coaxial cable termination. ARCEP estimates that more than 4.5 million households were located within reach of an optical fibre network as of 30 September 2009.
As of 30 September 2009, there were over 36,000 buildings equipped with fibre-to-the-home and connected to at least one operator’s network, which marks a 9% increase compared to 30 June 2009. Around 740,000 households are located in these buildings and are now eligible to receive an FTTH service (+ 14% since 30 June 2009). With a base of 9.3 million connections sold as of 30 September 2009, of which more than three quarters are without a classic telephone subscription, the wholesale DSL broadband market continues to grow at a steady pace.
 Scorecard for wholesale fixed broadband and ultra-fast broadband offers and High-speed and ultra high-speed Observatory– retail market at the 3rd Quarter 2009 (published at 11th January 2010) are on line

23th December  Optical fibre
ARCEP adopted the decision and the recommendation concerning the terms for deploying and accessing ultra high-speed optical fibre electronic communications lines in very densely populated areas, and has submitted the decision to the Minister responsible for electronic communications, for approval / Press release  

21th December  Surcharged numbers
Clarification of the pricing and scope of telephone-based value-added service (VAS) / Press release

24th November  Telecoms reform package
European Commission welcomes European Parliament approval of sweeping reforms to strengthen competition and consumer rights on Europe’s telecoms markets / European Commission Press release

20th November  Fixed number portability
ARCEP specifies the terms for implementing fixed number portability to provide residential and business subscribers with a better quality of service when changing operator / Press release

17th November  Market analysis - SMS call termination
ARCEP submits its market analysis concerning SMS call termination in Metropolitan France and the overseas territories to public consultation / Press release

12th November  Governance
ARCEP’s Forward Planning Committee was installed this morning under the chairmanship of the Authority’s Chairman, Jean-Ludovic Silicani.
This Committee made up of ARCEP Board members and other scientific, technological, legal, city planning, regional development and human sciences experts is created to better identify and understand medium and long-term developments in the areas that fall under ARCEP’s purview: electronic and postal communications / Press release

5th November  Regulation
Jean-Ludovic Silicani, Chairman of ARCEP, together with Nicolas Curien, Executive Board member, met with John Doherty, Chairman of the Irish regulator (COMREG), in Paris on November 5th 2009 / Press release

5th November  French Mobile Market
From 30 september on, France counts 59,6 million mobile customers (+5,8 year on year net growth), among which 1,7 million Internet SIM cards and 1,3 million M2M SIM cards. MVNO market share is 5,54%. Find all these figures in the last survey of the mobile market / Figures 

5th November  Telecoms Package
An agreement was reached last night - by unanimity - by the conciliation committee made up of representatives from the Parliament, the Commission and the Member States. Following final votes in Parliament and Council in november, these reforms could comme into force in early 2010 / European Commission press release / European Parliament press release 

3rd November  Termination of I-Phone exclusivity in France
Following the French competition Authority emergency measures, Apple and Orange promised to drop I-Phone exclusivity in France / Autorité de la Concurrence press release / ARCEP's 4th novembre 2008 opinion 

2nd November  Services Market Observatory 2nd quarter 2009
Arcep published the Observatory of the electronic communications services market in France for Q2 2009.
 The main figure: €11.0 billion. This is the revenue in the second quarter 2009 for French telecoms operators / All figures 

2nd November  Postal Sector
2 - 6 november: the French Senate is examining the bill concerning La Poste status and postal activities reforms / The bill legislative process

22th October  Accessibility
ARCEP publishes its latest newsletter in a format accessible to the visually impaired. ARCEP will publish all of its newsletters in this format from here on in. / Press release

21th October  Regulation
Meeting with the European Commission. ARCEP Chairman, Jean-Ludovic Silicani, accompanied by Executive Board member, Nicolas Curien, met with Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition, in Brussels / Press release

8th October  International
Jean-Ludovic Silicani takes part in the ITU Telecom World 2009 Forum / Press release / The speech

2nd October  Universal service
ARCEP joins the efforts that are currently underway to expand social offers / Press release

28th September  Ultra-fast broadband
Real strides were made in ultra-fast broadband rollouts in the first half of 2009, but the number of available connections is still small. There are currently 230,000 ultra-fast broadband subscribers in France, which marks a 35% increase since 31 December 2008. In addition, 650,000 households are now eligible to subscribe to a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service, or 50% more than on 1st January 2009 / Press release / The ultra-fast broadband scorecard as of 30 June 2009

23th September  Regulation
ARCEP Chairman, Jean-Ludovic Silicani, accompanied by Executive Board members, Daniel-Georges Courtois, Nicolas Curien and Joëlle Toledano, met with Mr. Ed Richards, Chief Executive of Ofcom, in Paris. This first bilateral meeting was an opportunity for the two regulators to discuss and compare their viewpoints on the central issues facing the electronic communications sector. / Press release

18th September  Capacity services
ARCEP is submitting its draft market analysis to the Competition Authority for opinion and is publishing the executive summary of the public consultation, along with the contributions received from stakeholders. The main changes brought to ARCEP's initial analysis concern adapting wholesale offerings to technological developments in the network, the ability to connect network elements through wholesale capacity offers and specifying France Telecom accounting obligations in the wholesale market for the terminal segment of capacity services / Draft market analysis submitted to the Competition Authority  / Executive summary of the public consultation  / Stakeholder contributions  

17th September  Broadband and ultra-fast broadband/ State aid
The European Commission has published its guidelines on State aid for the financing of public broadband and optical fibre networks/Press release/Guidelines

10th September  Very High Speed Internet
Speech by ARCEP Chairman, Mr. Jean-Ludovic SILICANI at the seminar on the digital economy – The regulator’s viewpoint / The speech

7th August  Status of 2G Mobile Coverage
ARCEP publishes a status report on 2G mobile coverage in France as of 1st January 2009 / Press release

24th July  Mobile termination rate
The French Supreme Administrative Court supports ARCEP’S methods for regulating the mobile termination rate, which is the service by which a mobile network operator enables his customers to be called by end-users of other mobile or fixed operators / Press release

3rd June  Postal sector
Joëlle Toledano, member of ARCEP's board, attended at the 17th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics presented by Center for Research in Regulated Industries, in Bordeaux (May 27-30) / Her speech is online

2nd June  Access and interconnection tariffs
ARCEP has taken note of the decrease in tariffs for local loop access, wholesale telephone subscription and interconnection offers published on this day by France Telecom, and which are applicable as of 1 January 2009 / Press release