Bluetooth, wi-fi, connected objects, radiofrequencies have invested so much in our daily life that the deployment of new generation antennas has become a real strategic issue for mobile telephone operators.
In Yvelines, residents of the former town of Fourqueux, which joined Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 2019, lodged a legal appeal with the administrative court of Versailles about the installation of six 4G and 5G antennas.
The site is due to start in March, just 40 m as the crow flies from a micro-crèche.
The sign attached to the fence of the business park is very clear: “Installation of a mobile telephone relay station”.
Located 54 m from the first house and 250 m from the nursery school, the construction of these antennas on the roof of Green Ouest is a source of concern for residents.
Because this project should see the light of day in a residential area, also 200 m from the Griseau mare residence in Mareil-Marly.
Nearly 70 people mobilized at the time in Gargenville against the 5G./LP/Virginie Wéber antenna project.
Local residents feel taken aback
“What motivated my approach is that we were never informed, regrets Bénédicte Bellamy, one of the local residents behind the Stop Antennas Fourqueux collective.
A point of view shared by one of the residents of the neighborhood.
“We are faced with a fait accompli, that's what is irritating,” Chantal Buron blows.
Today, the collective counts seventy people and has just collected more than € 4,000 to cover legal costs.
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It also received the support of the Fourqueux Citoyen association, which had expressed its disagreement with the merger of the municipalities.
"We are not in a systematic opposition to the antennas, we know their usefulness, we know that we need them, but this project is taking shape next to a nursery and not very far from a primary school, reacts the president Bernard Monteil.
We would have appreciated that the town hall showed a certain precaution before the publication of the report of the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (Anses).
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An orientation that was taken in Limay last December when the city council voted a moratorium to suspend the arrival of the fifth generation of mobile networks.
A year earlier, Gargenville had reverted to the authorization to install a 5G antenna, after a general mobilization.
A necessity for economic development
ANSES must submit a final expertise on 5G before the end of March.
This eagerly awaited work follows “a preliminary report which determines the basis of its expert appraisal work highlighting in particular a lack of scientific data on the potential biological and health effects linked to exposure to frequencies around 3.5 GHz. », Notes the Ministry of Solidarity and Health.
If the town hall of Saint-Germain-en-Laye "hears the concerns of people", it ensures that "Fourqueux is not a fallback zone to stick whatever you want".
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"We realize that if our city wants to develop, we need good coverage and that also requires the installation of antennas in the city center, adds Marillys Macé, assistant (LREM) in charge of town planning and buildings.
The deployment of branches must respond to several challenges such as the city's economic development, distance education and teleworking.
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Bring flow to city centers
However, the town did not approach an operator to launch the new installation.
It is an initiative of Orange which prefers, however, to remain discreet on the next upcoming deployments at the level of the department.
“Orange has chosen to deploy 5G, where it makes sense for its customers,” said the operator.
We are going to cover city cores as a priority, in order to provide more capacity in areas that are already heavily used and in order to avoid any risk of saturation and provide higher speeds (3 to 4 times today, 10 times in the long term). ) as well as on certain industrial sites.
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One thing is certain, the deployment of relay antennas is not about to stop, on the contrary.
According to a study by Tactis, operators should deploy 30% more sites, in peri-urban areas, to offer a 5G level of service equivalent to 4G.
The number of antennas required for 5G coverage of the territory is thus set at 10,500 by 2025 by the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (Arcep).
