L’enquête Accès aux droits s’intéresse en particulier au rôle du numérique afin d’envisager les effets de la dématérialisation des services publics sur leur accessibilité. En ce sens, les répondants sont interrogés sur les difficultés rencontrées en ligne, un ajout par rapport à l’enquête de 2016, afin de documenter l’impact de la dématérialisation des services publics.Il en ressort qu’une part non négligeable de la population n’arrive pas à faire ses démarches administratives en ligne seule :  Moins d’une personne sur deux parvient à faire ses démarches en ligne, sans aide 36% déclarent avoir besoin d’une aide ponctuelle. Des difficultés qui touchent les plus jeunes, comme les plus vieux. Les moins de 34 ans et les plus de 55 ans font majoritairement face à des difficultés sur les démarches en ligne : 51% des 18-34 ans et 53% de 55-79 ans.

Most telcos still haven’t come to terms with what AI truly means for their future. This is a 2007 iPhone moment on steroids, not another radio upgrade, not a “TechCo” rebrand, and certainly not a digital transformation checklist. AI is changing the very physics of how humans, and now machines, connect and interact across the digital and physical world.

Before 2007, Telcos knew precisely who they were.They built networks. They connected nations. They carried the weight of communication with pride. Telcos were infrastructure institutions: disciplined, engineered, predictable. Then, in 2007, everything changed. The iPhone turned connectivity into an afterthought. The network disappeared behind the screen, and the center of gravity shifted from infrastructure to experience. For the first time, the telco wasn’t the main act; it was the invisible stagehand behind the digital revolution.

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In a world increasingly reliant on digital connectivity, the phrase "digital divide" has become a common refrain. This divide highlights the stark contrast between those who have reliable Internet access and those who do not. In low-income areas, where barriers to connectivity can hinder educational opportunities, job prospects, and even access to healthcare, bridging this gap is more crucial than ever. Ensuring equitable Internet access has the power to transform lives in ways that are profound and far-reaching.

Most digital telco brands fail because they copy the form, not the logic. They launch with new colors, cheeky slogans, and influencer ads, but they keep the same DNA: legacy stack, corporate approvals, and tariff thinking. A digital logo wrapped around a paper process. Within a year, the app slows down, churn climbs, and the team that built it is moved back under “Consumer Marketing.” The post-mortem usually blames market saturation, but the truth is more straightforward: digital requires a different metabolism.

Une étude réalisée par le comparateur Selectra relève que 61% des offres commercialisées par les opérateurs télécoms incluent plus de 100 Go de data, «soit six fois plus que le besoin réel» des utilisateurs.

This week, the confession comes from the other side of the table. From the people who have built our systems, sat through our meetings, and quietly watched the same story repeat across continents: the vendors.They have seen how decisions are made, how timelines are invented, and how politics replaces logic. They know when a project will fail before the first contract is signed. They understand that most telcos no longer innovate; they negotiate. Procurement has replaced product. Compliance has replaced creativity.

Telco CEOs have changed as much as the networks they run. Two decades ago, most were engineers obsessed with coverage maps; today, they’re diplomats managing politics, investors, and cloud partners.

In 2008, Europe’s telcos were the most valuable companies in technology. Today, their worth has fallen by more than 80%. We spoke to insiders to understand how the empire collapsed.

In classical AI, an agent is nothing mystical. It is a system that perceives, makes decisions, and acts within an environment. A thermostat is an agent. A Roomba is an agent. The term never implied consciousness or autonomy. It was a clean abstraction for building systems that respond to inputs and produce outputs in pursuit of a goal.In the era of generative AI, the word “agent” has been hijacked. Vendors present agents as if they were digital employees who can sit in your enterprise, learn the ropes, and work unsupervised.

Instead of every device depending on a single WiFi router, ESP32 boards link together, passing data from node to node. The result? A self-healing, decentralized network that keeps devices connected, even if one path fails. 

Derrière cette affaire, la découverte est impressionnante : plus de 300 serveurs SIM, abritant pas moins de 100 000 cartes SIM, étaient dissimulés sur différents sites stratégiques. Ces équipements n’étaient pas cantonnés à des appels anonymes : ils pouvaient tout autant permettre des attaques complexes sur l’infrastructure mobile, comme le sabotage d’antennes-relais ou l’exécution d’attaques par déni de service. À travers une communication chiffrée et opaque, ces dispositifs offraient aussi un canal privilégié entre des individus déjà surveillés par la police fédérale et des acteurs étatiques étrangers.

Les terminaux d’aujourd’hui ne ressemblent plus guère à ceux d’hier. Désormais, la transformation numérique s’impose comme le socle de l’aviation moderne, révolutionnant bien au-delà des simples systèmes de réservation. Grâce à une alliance de la 5G, du Wi-Fi 6, des réseaux privés et de l’edge computing, les aéroports se métamorphosent en véritables plateformes connectées. Cette mutation n’a rien d’anodin : elle vise autant l’efficacité opérationnelle que l’expérience vécue par chaque voyageur.

Telecommunications is entering a new investment cycle under very different financial conditions than those of the last cycle. The era of near-zero rates that supported the rollouts of 4G and early 5G has given way to higher capital costs, stricter credit markets, and slower revenue growth. These shifts expose structural weaknesses that are often overlooked in public reporting.This week’s three confessions examine them directly: the composition of telco boards and how it limits innovation, the role of debt as a permanent feature of the industry’s balance sheets, and the widening gap between returns and the cost of capital that will determine how 6G is financed.

By 2025, GPUs will be the most contested resource in the technology sector. Demand from AI training and inference has pushed supply chains to their limit, and a single rack of high-end accelerators can generate more revenue per square meter than most telco switches ever did.Telecom operators have begun to take an interest in this activity. With mobile data revenues flat and infrastructure costs rising, the appeal of a service category that analysts expect to expand from approximately $5 billion in 2023 to more than $50 billion by the early 2030s is obvious. When combined with the parallel rise of edge computing, projected to exceed 300 billion by 2030, the potential looks transformative.

Seven outsiders step into the scanner to expose what telcos are getting wrong, and how to heal the fractures before it’s too late

La région de l’Afrique subsaharienne connaît une transformation numérique sans précédent, où le déploiement progressif de la 5G agit comme un véritable catalyseur. Si l’on observe d’ores et déjà des avancées notables en Afrique du Sud, au Kenya ou au Nigeria, d’autres pays comme le Ghana, la Tanzanie ou l’Ethiopie commencent également à tirer parti de ce nouvel élan technologique. L’accès plus rapide à Internet et la diminution de la latence modifient profondément les usages, ouvrant le champ à des expériences inédites, du streaming haute définition aux jeux mobiles en temps réel.

L’opérateur télécoms Orange se dit désormais prêt à participer activement à une consolidation du secteur en France, marquant un tournant potentiel dans le paysage concurrentiel des télécommunications et ouvrant la voie à d’éventuels rapprochements entre acteurs majeurs.

Telecom networks run on models. Erlang distributions, busy-hour factors, peak-to-average ratios, and oversubscription levels are the tools that let operators design networks without provisioning for absolute maximum demand. The assumption is that human behavior follows statistically smooth curves, allowing for the forecast of aggregate demand and the absorption of rare spikes with a margin of overcapacity.AI breaks this foundation. Agent-driven traffic is non-ergodic: past averages do not predict future bursts. Each inference request is unique, decorrelated from the next, and capable of spawning chains of sub-requests across geographies.