The French cabinet will tomorrow discuss a plan that could propel the country into the information age and connect every household to the information superhighway, Reuter reports from Paris: the idea is to wire every home with fibre optic cable linked by broadband Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches; the proposal is for France Telecom to take sole responsibility for building the superhighway, investing between $1,000m and $2,000m a year between now and the year 2015; one specialist described the plan to Le Monde dismissively as being like demanding that Air France, in full competition with other airlines, should buy a fleet of Concordes.
