2024-01-19 15:09:00
They didn’t take long to publish their shopping list! Two days following Emmanuel Macron’s press conference at the Elysée, where the head of state called for ” DELETE “ THE “useless standards” pour “liberate those who do, who dare, who work”, telecom operators responded tit for tat. Under the aegis of the French Telecoms Federation (FFT), Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free proposed, on Thursday, a battery of measures to facilitate the deployment of mobile networks.
According to them, the installation of pylons and relay antennas is too often, in certain places, a process of the cross. “Certain legislative and regulatory provisions in force are sources of slowdowns, or even blockages, in the deployment of mobile sites”, they moan. It is therefore necessary, in their eyes, to clean up. “Without regulatory changes, the acceleration of mobile coverage will remain hampered and ineffective in certain territories”warn operators.
The coastal law slows down deployments
Several texts appear in their viewfinder. The first of these is the coastal law, which limits development by the sea for environmental and heritage preservation reasons. Operators wish to review certain provisions, given the large number of projects to install re-mounted telephone pylons. Today, 1,848 mobile sites are subject to “refusal” or suffer from “implementation difficulties”castigates the FFT.
While the arrival of an antenna in a village sometimes turns into a standoff between the mayor, residents and operators, the latter want the city councilors to no longer have the power to withdraw planning authorizations concerning the sites mobile. This is what the ELAN law has planned, on an experimental basis, until the end of 2022. Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free consider that this measure has greatly facilitated deployments. They are campaigning to perpetuate it.
Secure leases
The operators also want the legislator to secure the leases which accommodate their mobile installations. For several years, they have been faced with new players, such as Valocime or Telecom Invest, who are buying up the leases hosting their telephone pylons when they expire. As clarified The worldtheir objective is, in fine, to get their hands on these infrastructures, thanks to the threat of expulsion. These maneuvers sometimes result in the dismantling of antennas, and consequently in the reappearance of a mobile “white zone”.
Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free are also campaigning for their networks to be considered as “sensitive goods”. And this in order to benefit from a “priority service maintenance” in the event of load shedding – i.e. a voluntary and localized cutoff of the electrical networks. Last winter, such cuts were considered in the event of a power shortage, and operators feared experiencing “blackouts”. With all the consequences that would have resulted for users, such as the impossibility of contacting emergency services, if necessary.
Other requests complete the desired operators. By standing together, they hope to be heard by the government, and ” to feed “ the future simplification bill currently being developed. Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free consider that these measures are necessary to ensure complete mobile coverage of the country. They hope to convince public authorities keen not to worsen the digital divide.
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