Strasbourg. This week's debrief: Castaways 2.0, an anticipated clinic (at the turning point)

At the Esplanade, around thirty tenants have been waiting for two years to be connected to fiber optics . Between Orange, which claims saturated pipes, and Ophéa, which passes the buck to subcontractors, the residents feel forgotten.

The consequences: inflated bills, complicated teleworking, inaccessible online courses. "They have fiber optics, we stick with ADSL," summarizes Mouldi Bouteben, one of the affected residents.

Elected representative Caroline Zorn points out a "paradox": Strasbourg is less well served than neighboring municipalities. The government has forced operators to set up in peri-urban areas, counting on the invisible hand of competition to do the job in...

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