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Fréjus Tunnel that connects France and Italy to close this weekend
The tunnel will close for 12 hours and not the 56 hours originally announced
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TotalEnergies opens service station for electric vehicles in Paris
It is the first of its kind in the capital and has ultra-fast charging
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Conductors on French public transport will soon be able to check your address
Move is part of anti-fraud plans to prevent people from giving false information during fines including on SNCF trains
€100m fund for high-speed internet in rural France
Prime Minister unveils plan to bring broadband to entire country by 2020, and high-speed internet by 2022
France has set aside €100million to ensure high-speed internet is available in even the most isolated areas of the country by 2022.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced the government plans to make "good broadband internet access" available nationwide by 2020 and "very high-speed access" by 2022.
In a speech in Cahors, Lot, Mr Philippe also said that he hoped to reach an agreement with mobile operators "by Christmas" to improve the quality of the network in rural areas.
The government may be willing to cancel or postpone an auction of new frequencies in 2021 in return for billions of euros of investment in the internet infrastructure, Le Parisien says, citing 'a source close to the talks'.
In July, President Emmanuel Macron pledged that high-speed internet access of at least eight megabits a second would be available to everyone in France by 2020, with very-high-speeds of 30 megabits per second two years later.
An estimated 7.5million people in France do not have high-speed internet access. Some 500,000 residents in 1,620 communes in France have no internet whatsoever, and 340 communes are off the mobile phone network. Some, including the isolated Finistère village of Trégarvan are off both grids, LCI reports.
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