The State of the Internet in France 2025 (ARCEP)

Summary

• 94% of people in France used the internet in 2024, and 84% did so on a daily basis.p.11
• Average monthly mobile data traffic per SIM card stood at 16.6 GB in Q4 2024 (up 1.7 GB YoY).p.11
• Of the 84 million SIM cards in service, 24 million are activated on 5G networks, accounting for 29% of all mobile SIM cards in Q4 2024.p.11
• Around 47% of traffic to the country's four largest ISPs came from five companies: Netflix, Akamai, Facebook, Google and Amazon.p.12
• At the end of 2024, 87% of fixed and 70% of mobile consumer customers were IPv6-enabled, and 35% of websites were available in IPv6.p.12

Key insights

1. The asymmetry ratio between inbound and outbound traffic stood at 9.9:1 in 2024, against 10.6 in 2023.p.18
2. On-net CDNs were estimated to account for 19% of ISPs' traffic to end users at the end of 2024, or around 12.1 Tb/s.p.12
3. Netflix generated the largest volume of traffic at an estimated 12.3% of total traffic, down from 15.3% in 2023, while Amazon represents 8.6%.p.22
4. Traffic from the Big 5 tech companies reached 25% of the total.p.22
5. Data centre operators' greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption and water use rose 11%, 8% and 19% YoY, respectively.p.13
6. Internet routers and STBs together consumed 3.5 TWh, five times more than fixed networks' energy use.p.13
7. France ranks second in IPv6 adoption among the 100 countries with the most internet users, with a combined rate of 68.6% in February 2025, behind India (73.4%).p.26
8. The rate of IPv6 mail hosting increased from 8% to 23% in two years, compared to a three-point increase in the previous four years.p.26
9. Only 34.8% of websites are IPv6-ready, a 15-point increase since 2021.p.30