Latest report on the state of local loop unbundling in France shows mad quarterly growth of 41% for fully unbundled lines.

Each fully unbundled line represents a customer relationship fully extinguished for France Telecom, and the current rate of 10,000 lost customers per week is just the current snapshot of a trend that is still accelerating.

FT will try to ease the inevitable pain by aggressivelly stealing customers from neighbouring countries like the UK and Spain, both of which are on the cusp of ULL & ADSL2+ explosions (message to fellow European incumbents: if I’m going down, you’re coming down with me!).

2006 promises to be very, very ugly for incumbent fixed line operators.

Link: NetEconomie :: Le d¿groupage continue de s¿duire les fran¿ais.