- 5G will be available in the capital “before the end of February for all operators”, Xavier Niel said on Monday.
- For her part, the mayor of Paris indicates to continue “her work of transparency vis-à-vis Parisians” without advancing on a schedule
- This Tuesday, the elected environmentalists once again asked in a letter addressed to Anne Hidalgo to suspend the deployment of 5G in the capital.
5G very soon at Paris ? In any case what Xavier Niel predicted , founder of the telecom operator Free. The new network will be available in the capital “before the end of February for all operators”, he said Monday. “Paris was a careful city, there was a fear. The city has tried to do things pretty well. I was a little critical a month ago but I have the impression that things are moving in the right direction, ”declared Xavier Niel in an interview on BFM Business.
While several towns, particularly in Ile-de-France, have decided to put in place moratoriums – a principle recommended by the Citizen’s Climate Convention – concerning the deployment of the 5G network, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, for her part, preferred to hold a citizen consultation. And this, in order to respond to a “need for transparency” of citizens about the impact of 5G on the environment or health. “The goal is to offer crazy guards on uses and create a base”,
was explained within the executive last October despite repeated calls for a moratorium from environmental allies.
“The City is continuing its work of transparency”
A Metropolitan Citizens’ Conference , made up of twenty Parisians and sixty metropolitan residents, was thus held to debate and make recommendations on 5G. In its conclusions, the people surveyed issued at the end of the year, 20 recommendations, for “open, transparent information” on the consequences of its establishment, and pleaded for “recycling of equipment” .
In detail, they in particular requested that an environmental impact study be carried out by an independent research firm in order to precisely define the impacts and benefits of 5G before its deployment. “We will come back to them to tell them where we are, ”Anne Hidalgo pledged. “We will take stock at the latest within a year to say where we are and how the various recommendations have become acts,” she said. But by then, will 5G already be deployed, from the end of February, as Xavier Niel believes? Above all, is Paris ready?
“The City is now working on updating its Parisian Mobile Telephone Charter and is continuing its work of transparency vis-à-vis Parisians on the issue of electro-magnetic waves”, it is reported. at the Town Hall contacted by 20 Minutes. Discussions between Parisian elected officials from different political groups, citizens’ associations, mobile telephone operators and the agencies concerned (ANFR, ARCEP, ANSES) are taking place this week. “As soon as the City and the operators have reached a common text, making it possible in particular to take into account recommendations of the citizens’ conference, the update of the charter will be the subject of a vote in the Council of Paris ”, we add without specifying more about Xavier Niel’s deadline. But for their part,
the Parisian environmentalists
do not give up their fight.
In detail, they in particular requested that an environmental impact study be carried out by an independent research firm in order to precisely define the impacts and benefits of 5G before its deployment. “We will come back to them to tell them where we are, ”Anne Hidalgo pledged. “We will take stock at the latest within a year to say where we are and how the various recommendations have become acts,” she said. But by then, will 5G already be deployed, from the end of February, as Xavier Niel believes? Above all, is Paris ready? “The City is now working on updating its Parisian Mobile Telephone Charter and is continuing its work of transparency vis-à-vis Parisians on the issue of electro-magnetic waves”, it is reported. at the Town Hall contacted by 20 Minutes. Discussions between Parisian elected officials from different political groups, citizens’ associations, mobile telephone operators and the agencies concerned (ANFR, ARCEP, ANSES) are taking place this week. “As soon as the City and the operators have reached a common text, making it possible in particular to take into account recommendations of the citizens’ conference, the update of the charter will be the subject of a vote in the Council of Paris ”, we add without specifying more about Xavier Niel’s deadline. But for their part, The Greens are still asking for the suspension of the deployment
In a letter sent this Tuesday by the Ecologist Group of Paris to Anne Hidalgo about the deployment of 5G, including 20 Minutes obtained a copy, the elected officials ask him to suspend the deployment of the 5G. And this, “the time to quantify its carbon impact for Paris” and “to establish a precise assessment of the possible needs experienced on the Parisian territory to which 5G could truly meet”. And to specify: “If 5G was deployed in Paris before the end of February 737 as announced in a very surprising way, the founder of Free, Xavier Niel, we would have lost our balance of power with the operators to hope to impose the resulting measures. “ Currently, more than 7. 310 5G sites have been commercially opened by Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues Telecom since the end of November in France, outside Paris and major cities, according to data published by the Telecoms Regulatory Authority ( Arcep). The capital has