Question 26817 — telecommunications

Summary

Mr. Patrick Loiseau draws the attention of the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy and Finance and the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, responsible for digital technology, to the environmental consequences of the deployment of 5G in France. The development of this fifth generation of mobile network is at the heart of future digital challenges. It will provide higher speeds and lower latency. A truly disruptive technology, it will also support numerous simultaneous connections and new uses, particularly industrial. Its implementation on an experimental basis has already begun in France: the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) launched the frequency allocation procedure on December 30, 2019. The first offers are expected at the end of 2020. However, its deployment is accompanied by numerous questions, in terms of data protection, but also on its health and environmental effects. On this last point, the development of 5G will require the installation of new antennas in the 3.5 GHz frequency band, and in fact, the production of new network equipment with impacts in terms of use of water resources, extraction of minerals and greenhouse gas emissions. In Furthermore, if energy consumption is difficult to measure at this stage, a rebound effect on user behavior is to be expected, notably with the use of bandwidth-intensive applications and a renewal of consumer equipment (smartphones). He therefore asks what strategy the Government intends to adopt, both at the national level but also at the European level, in order to make the deployment of 5G with the environmental objectives set by France and in particular with its National Low Carbon Strategy.

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