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12 September 2003 - The operators of the French power grid, RTE, said on Thgusday it had established an optical fibre link in northwest France as part of its plan to integrate telecommunications and electricity lines.

The link between Cherbourg and Saint-Lo is for local government use and was not a profit-making enterprise. "RTE is not concerned commercially by these activities. Rather it provides its resources to a public interest task," Andre Merlin, head of RTE said in a statement. The fees for the link were calculated on a strict cost-price basis, RTE said.

RTE develops and runs its own telecommunication infrastructure along its electricity network that spans more than 70 000 km of high and very high voltage lines that it uses itself to manage its power grid.

RTE is to become a separate legal entity from state-owned Electricité de France under the European Union energy liberalisation directive.

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