The cable deployed Thursday by Enedis and Orange from the continent could accelerate the revival of the old Breton tuna port, the first in Europe until the early 1940s.
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“Mr. Director of Orange, could you not give us a special island reduced rate?” Attached, at the end of the sunny afternoon of May, on the Quai de Port Tudy, Dominique Yvon, the mayor de Groix (Morbihan), with teasing mood. In a few days, “Le Caillou” will become the first Breton island connected to the continent by fiber optic. Its 2,250 citizens will finally be able to enjoy a real very high speed internet connection. And too bad if Damien de Kerhor, the regional director of Orange in Brittany, shower with a burst of laughter accomplice the fellowship hopes of the councilor: the time is for celebration on the island. “We have been waiting for the fiber for years,” blows Mr. Yvon.
On May 5, a cable 7.5 kilometers long and 120 millimeters in diameter was to arise from transparent waters of one of the island’s coves. Carefully deposited by 35 meters of funds between Lorient and Groix by the Pierre-de-Fermat, one of the six cabliers of Orange Marine, this cable of more than 220 tonnes, built in France by Prysmian on its Amfreville site (Calvados) then assembled in Germany, is unique of its kind. In one piece, he married in the same sheath three electric drivers of 20,000 volts and forty-eight pairs of optical fibers.
“He brings Groix into the twentieth e
é> century”, appreciates Mr. Yvon, whose father, Joseph, was mayor of the island between 1971 and 1989. The installation of this cord Umbilical, co -financed by Enedis and Orange, at a total cost of 4 million euros, 88 % of which are the responsibility of the electricity group, hoped for a new golden age Groisillon.
First Thonier port in Europe until the early 1940s, Groix was overwhelmed by his continental neighbors. The island only counts only a handful of tuna while in the beautiful era, more than 300 ships colored its ports. But with tourism then the upheavals engendered by the COVVI-19, Groix wants to believe in a revival. 2> “win additional teleworkers”
expected in the coming days, the results of the last census should reveal the very first progression of the island’s population in a century, it which had even more than 3,100 inhabitants in the early 1970s. “Groix could be The only island of the Littoral Manche-Atlantique in this situation, “said Dominique Yvon, mayor since 2014, after having been the first time between 1989 and 2001. An additional kindergarten class was already opened in 2021 and the town hall has invested 600,000 euros in the construction of a home of childminders.
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