法国计划建造一条具有多种服务项目的光纤网络,这种网络既能把电视电话信号、又能把电视信号发送到用户家中。在1985年圣地亚哥光纤通讯会议上的一篇特约文章中,法国拉尼翁(Lannion)国家电信研究中心的Rene Bouillie说,今年,巴黎和蒙彼利埃的15万用户将由光纤连接起来。1986年和1987年,光纤网络将再增加150万个用户。这一计划大大领先于美国最积极的计划人员,如南方贝尔公司Richard SneHing提出的计划。美国的计划人员希望1990年开始把光纤通讯用于家庭。计划的光纤网络是分等级的。它动用了全国应用光纤的实验,为休养胜地比亚里茨市的1500户人 France plans to build a fiber optic network with a variety of service projects that can send video signals and TV signals to users’ homes. In a special article at the 1985 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication in San Diego, Rene Bouillie of Lannion National Telecommunication Research Center in France said that 150,000 users in Paris and Montpellier will be connected by optical fiber this year. In 1986 and 1987, fiber optic networks will add another 1.5 million users. This plan greatly ahead of the most active planners in the United States, such as the plan proposed by the South Bell company Richard SneHing. US planners hope to start using fiber-optic communications in their homes in 1990. The planned fiber network is hierarchical. It used the national experiment of applying fiber optics to 1,500 households in the resort town of Biarritz.