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On 3 December 2008, France had 16.3 million broadband connections, of which 94% are ADSL subscribers. [16] This makes France the second largest ADSL market in Europe. At the end of 2005, 30% of those DSL lines were unbundled, and 37% of those unbundled lines were totally unbundled without any direct invoicing of the historical operator and a greater progression rate than partial unbundling. [17]
Free was the third ISP in France to offer Internet access without a subscription or a surcharged phone number, on 26 April 1999. [10] Unlike its predecessors in the niche of access without subscription (World Online on 1999-04-01 and Freesurf [] on 1999-04-19), Free's offer was not restricted in time or number of subscribers.
Telecommunications in France are highly developed. France is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable , microwave radio relay , and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone service is widely available, expanding rapidly, and includes roaming service to ...
The word banlieue, which is French for "suburb", does not necessarily refer to an environment of social disenfranchisement.Indeed, there exist many wealthy suburbs, such as Neuilly-sur-Seine (the wealthiest commune of France per capita) and Versailles (the former royal capital) outside Paris.
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The artistically lit interior of the Grand Palais in Paris by French visual artist Thierry Dreyfus, 2005. Nuit Blanche (French pronunciation: [nɥi ˈblɑ̃ʃ]) (White Night) is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival of a city.
The city of Paris covers an area much smaller than the urban area of which it is the core. At present, Paris's real urbanisation, defined by the pôle urbain (urban cluster) statistical area, covers 2,845 km 2 (1,098 sq mi), [9] or an area about 27 times larger than the city itself. The administration of Paris's urban growth is divided between ...
Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération (lit. ' French Association for Cooperative Internet Naming ' , AFNIC ) is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate country code top-level domain names for France and a number of its overseas departments and collectivities .