Question 30472 — telecommunications

Summary

Mr. Jean-Claude Leclabart draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities, responsible for cities and housing, to mobile coverage. In January 2018, when the “New mobile deal” was signed, 2,063 French sites were classified in the white zone, including 23 in the Somme. As the Minister indicated in a note dated January 28, 2020, this “New mobile deal” marks a unprecedented change of ambition in terms of mobile coverage. To cover these white areas, the MP's department benefited from 7 allocations: 3 sites in 2018, 4 sites in 2019. It will benefit from 6 sites in 2020, or even 7 using one of the 4 regional bonuses under discussion in February 2020. Under these conditions, there will remain between 9 and 10 sites to be implemented which, given the allocations of recent years, would lead to until 2022. Knowing that it takes 18 to 24 months for the operator to install a pylon from the publication of the ministerial decree, the last of the 34 municipalities affected by the 23 identified sites will have to wait until 2024 for its white zone to be absorbed. However, it is appropriate to add to these white areas all the gray areas that the planned allocation will only be able to cover very partially. Furthermore, the actual analysis of the network carried out by the department's services between March and August 2019 made it possible to detect 39 other areas to be treated, including 6 completely devoid of any telephone coverage. If we take an average of two sites per white zone to be treated, like the 12 zones requiring the installation of 23 antennas studied so far, this would mean that 78 new antennas would have to be installed in the Somme to cover the white zones. With a quota of 6 to 7 antennas per year, it would take between 11 and 12 years to really eliminate the white areas. This means that the last municipality will be completely covered by mobile telephony between 2035 and 2036. The Femtocell box is only a limited solution to improve coverage for the user in their home only for their operator's network. For rural areas, outdoor coverage is everything as important as it is, it mainly concerns health professionals, artisans, farmers, who cannot access the resources they need. Telephony over wifi requires having a recent telephone and an accessible wifi network, something rare outdoors in villages. Mini transmitter solutions have been tested on street furniture (Orange in Annecy), improving coverage of rural areas should involve the installation of similar equipment which would allow, from a mini station, to cover an area of ​​approximately 500 meters in radius. He asks him what alternative technologies can be put in place to ensure quality mobile coverage for all French people, and thanks him.

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