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One year after its launch in France, 5G is experiencing rapid deployment

2021-08-27T17:02:33.240Z


ANALYSIS - After a difficult start, the new generation of mobile telephony is breaking speed records. Large fields of application are beginning to emerge, such as health, transport and robotics.


5G is breaking new records in France.

Never has a new generation of mobile telephony seen such rapid deployment.

A little less than a year after the allocation of 5G frequencies, operators are installing their new networks at a breakneck pace.

Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange and SFR now have a total of 28,000 5G antennas in the region.

It took four years for 4G, launched in 2012, to reach this level.

5G is rolling out better and faster than expected.

This is in no way to the detriment of our policy of deploying 4G and fiber in France.

On the contrary.

5G should arrive this year in rural areas.

It is a regional planning tool

, ”underlines Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital and Telecoms.

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Orange already claims to cover 30% of the population with 5G, while Free claims

“the largest network in France”

.

For its part, Bouygues Telecom aims "to

cover 60% of the population here

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Source: lefigaro

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