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Senate hearing of the Arcep Chair
The Arcep Chair came before the Senate to answer questions about the Court of Auditors’ report on government support for optical fibre deployment. The public hearing was livestreamed and is available on the Senate website.
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13th BEREC Stakeholder Forum
Arcep Chair, Laure de la Raudière, and Executive Board member, Sarah Jacquier-Pélissier, along with representatives of Arcep departments, will be on hand for the latest edition of the Stakeholder Forum hosted by BEREC in Brussels. This event brings together electronic communications industry players, regulators, lawmakers and all other stakeholders to discuss the sector’s latest developments. The event will include two roundtables, on the “Role of end users in fast changing digital markets” and the “Future of market power regulation” (i.e. SMP players’ ability to influence the market price of a good or service, rather than having to accept the price determined purely by supply and demand under perfect competition conditions).
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2025 Annual Culture Presse Conference
Arcep Chair, Laure de la Raudière, spoke at the annual Culture Presse Conference, an event that brings together elected officials and this newsagent trade organisation’s delegates. The event took place during a time of deep-seated change for the sector, as efforts to promote the value of the newsagent profession are currently being negotiated by press distribution stakeholders, who are due to submit their proposals to Arcep in the coming weeks on how to improve this essential link in the sector’s chain.
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Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
Arcep Executive Board members, Sarah Jacquier-Pelissier and Xavier Merlin, along with representatives of Arcep departments, attended the Mobile World Congress (MWC), an international event that attracts leading mobile industry stakeholders, manufacturers, operators, digital service providers, etc.
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“RightsCon” Summit
Arcep took part in the international “RightsCon” Summit, building a bridge between tech businesses and human rights. Arcep organised an online roundtable on “Achieving digital sustainability: how can digital governance support ecodesign principles?”. Its goal: to discuss the means that lawmakers and regulators have to encourage the ecodesign of digital services.
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Trip to Guiana for fixed and mobile connectivity talks
Arcep Chair, Laure de La Raudière, along with Arcep’s “Connected Territories” department, will be travelling to Guiana for several days, to take stock of the issues specific to this vast territory, 96% of which is forest. Bespoke regional development has been examined for the most isolated communities, to be able to provide the local population with high-quality connectivity. This includes using alternative ultrafast solutions to fibre. Guiana is also a strategic territory, home to a submarine cable that connects to Portugal, and recently became a member of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU).
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AI Summit Forum on AI’s environmental footprint
Parallel to the Summit’s main discussions between heads of State and government and public figures on the overarching shared actions to be taken, close to 100 other events will be taking place that are open to everyone (civil society, businesses, administrations, associations, etc…). One of these events, a forum hosted by the Ministry for the Green Transition, will explore AI’s environmental footprint and the actions that need to be taken to make it sustainable.
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Delivery of the FNCCR Com’Publics Guide to “Safeguarding ethical, sovereign and safe digital technology”
The Arcep Executive Board will attend the presentation of the FNCCR (National Federation of local authorities for network-based services) and Com’Publics Guide on “Safeguarding ethical, sovereign and safe digital technology” to which Arcep contributed. The purpose of this guide is to explain to businesses and public sector players why it is so crucial to adopt reliable solutions that protect individual freedoms for local authorities and their users. It also provides a primer on European regulations such as NIS2 (which ANSSI presented in last year’s November issue of The Post).
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Event on the issues surrounding access to the infrastructures and energy required by AI as part of the AI Summit
A satellite event to the AI Summit is being hosted by AFNUM at the Canadian Embassy, with special guest, Clara Chappaz, the Deputy Minister responsible for AI and digital technology, and Arcep Chair, Laure de La Raudière. It will be devoted to the availability of the infrastructures and energy needed to deploy AI.
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Future Generations Tribunal: “Can AI save the planet?”
At the AI Summit being held in Paris from 6 to 11 February, Arcep is teaming up with eight other institutions to host a free and open event on AI’s environmental footprint: the “Future generations tribunal” (TGF). TGF is a format created by the magazine Usbek & Rica that borrows from a courtroom trial to interrogate and debate issues that imbue our present and shape our future. After a series of testimonies, oral and closing arguments, the public will deliver its verdict, can AI (yes or no) be part of our climate change objectives?
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