CHAPTER V: Local electronic communications networks and services

I. – For the establishment and operation of a network, local authorities and their groupings, where competence has previously been transferred to them, may, two months after publication of their project in a medium authorised to receive legal notices and its transmission to the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse, establish and operate on their territory electronic communications infrastructures and networks,…

Territorial master plans for digital development list the existing electronic communications infrastructures and networks, identify the areas they serve and present a strategy for developing these networks, with priority given to very high-speed fixed and mobile networks, including satellite, to ensure coverage of the territory concerned. These plans, which are indicative in nature, are intended to promote the coherence of public initiatives and their proper coordination with private investment. They…