Press release - Figures

Fixed Broadband and Superfast Broadband Market

FttH: from 5% to 82% of fixed internet subscriptions in 10 years

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Today, Arcep is publishing its scorecard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market in France as of the end of December 2025. 

ROLLOUTS: As of 31 December 2025, 42.4 million households in France were passed for fibre, representing 94.3% coverage. Close to 2.6 million premises still remain to be passed.

  • At the end of 2025, of the 45 million premises in Metropolitan France inventoried by operators, 42.4 million are passed for FttH, while 2.6 million still remain to be covered.
  • The pace in FttH deployment slowed once again in Q4 2025, as rollouts in multiple regions 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 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[1].
  • 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.

Monitoring FttH rollouts in “AMII” and “AMEL” areas

Arcep is responsible for monitoring operators’ compliance with the commitments[2] they have made, and publishes regular progress reports on their deployments. 

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 in municipalities where SFR has made a commitment had been made eligible for fibre access.

Details regarding the progress of individual “AMEL” project commitments (i.e. legally binding FttH rollout commitments that certain operators[3] have made to local authorities, as part of calls for expressions of local interest) can be found in pages 17 to 21 of the publication.

Illustration extraite du site Ma connexion internet

Tracking FttH rollouts with “Ma connexion internet” 

The “Déploiements fibre” maps on the “Ma connexion Internet” website (formerly cartefibre.arcep.fr) allow users to track the progress of FttH rollouts in a very detailed fashion.

The information associated with these rollout maps is available as open data.

SUBSCRIPTIONS: As of end December 2025, 27.1 million 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 27.1 million 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 1.4 million, or 5% of total internet subscriptions in France.
  • The number of ultrafast internet subscriptions stood 29 million as of 31 December 2025 (+ 650,000 in Q4 2025, compared to + 630,000 in Q4 2024). In addition to fibre, these subscriptions include VDSL2, cable, satellite, superfast wireless and fixed 4G and 5G plans. Ultrafast broadband subscriptions represented 88% of all internet subscriptions in Metropolitan France at the end of 2025.
  • The number of “classic” broadband subscriptions continues to shrink, albeit at a slower pace each quarter. In Q4 2025, their numbers decreased by 490,000, compared to a decrease of 540,000 in Q4 2024. The total number of “classic” broadband subscriptions thus stood at 4 million at the end of December 2025.
  • The number of broadband and superfast broadband subscriptions reached 33million as of 31 December 2025. The pace of quarterly growth has increased slightly, with 160,000 additional subscriptions recorded over the course of Q4 2025, compared to an increase of 00,000 in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Associated documents 

 

[1] This weak growth can be attributed in part to a temporary decrease in the number of homes passed by infrastructure operator Réseau Optique de France (-28,000 in a single quarter), due to structural repairs on its “large capacity” shared access points (PMGC in French) whose status, during rehabilitation work, went from “deployed” to “being deployed” in the “IPE” (enhanced prior information), in accordance with Interop Fibre protocols (Arcep regulation in support of connected territories – 2025 Annual report - Volume 2)

[2] https://www.arcep.fr/la-regulation/grands-dossiers-reseaux-fixes/la-fibre/les-engagements-de-couverture-fibre-en-zone-moins-dense.html

[3] Altitude Infra subsidiaries (Coraï, PIXL), Orange, XpFibre, and XpFibre subsidiaries (Saône-et-Loire THD, Savoie Connectée)