A telephone subscription and unlimited calls to fixed positions for 10 euros per month. Internet access from 1 to 5 megabits per second and more for a total of 20 euros. This offer, unveiled yesterday, defying all competition, does not use the telephone network, but the electric network, via carrier current technology online (CPL). The largest network CPL in the world must be built in 2007 in the small Crown in Paris. A delegation of public service in this sense has been attributed in March by the Union of municipalities of the SIPERREC to an SME of the Ardèche, Mecelec.
Resale of capacity

This will be a wholesaler: it will resell capabilities to distributors, who market the service to end users. These distributors will be operators, access providers, but also actors of energy or the large distribution. "Already, more than 20 distributors have expressed interest", says the CEO of Mecelec, Bruno Estienne.
Considers possible to achieve a wholesale price of 5 euros HT for the phone (or 15 euros HT by adding the Internet), and therefore lead to a retail price of 10 euros TTC (or 20 euros with the Internet). "These wholesale prices can cover the operation of the network". Aware of the advance made by ADSL, Mecelec has refined its target. "It will be composed of non-PC households (i.e. 50 of the total), those not covered by ADSL, and those non-maximum ADSL.". For example, almost 10 of the population would not sufficient throughput to receive TV by ADSL.
The network must connect the 1.5 million homes in the area of the SIPERREC. According to the CEO, this offer may win more than 30 of these households, or more than 450,000 customers. He table on the help of town halls, citing as an example of Courbevoie who spoke in his diary of the CPL test conducted in his commune.
The network represents an initial investment of 90 million euros (150 million with renewal). This corresponds to a need for funding of 50 million for Mecelec. In the absence of the SIPERREC grant Mecelec has opted for an original solution based on a prepayment made by distributors, via a subscription. "The subscription will be launched in December." We will ask distributors to invest 50-100 euros by future client, or a ticket to entry much lower than for ADSL, in exchange for an exclusivity of commercialization of two to five years. We hope to achieve at least 225,000 subscriptions, otherwise we have the possibility, provided for in the contract with the SIPERREC, to question the project. "The funding will be supplemented by a capital increase of Mecelec, which capitalizes today EUR 20 million on compartment C of Euronext.
Deployment in January
Mecelec business plan, with 17 of market share, return on investment in less than three years. In June, Mecelec mandated the cabinet of Egis for recruiting distributors. The supplier of equipment CPL will be selected later this month. Deployment should start "from January 2007" and to be in five years at maximum, but it can be accelerated by two years demand.