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For decades, France was the envy of industrial Europe. While its neighbours wrestled with carbon targets, volatile gas markets and energy imports, Paris relied on a vast, state-led nuclear system that delivered cheap, stable and largely carbon-free electricity. France appeared to have solved the energy puzzle long before the rest of the continent even agreed on the rules.
For decades, telecommunications lived comfortably behind a powerful assumption: neutrality. Operators built the pipes. Society decided what flowed through them. Connectivity was infrastructure — invisible, technical, politically silent. This separation created reassurance. If networks were neutral, responsibility lay elsewhere: with governments, platforms or users. Telecom, in this view, merely enabled.
