• Available in France since November, 5G has only been in service in the Nantes area since April 13.

  • The local agreement with the operators provided for waiting for the ANSES report to activate the antennas close to the equipment and nurseries.

  • As this report was submitted earlier than expected, the operators are already starting up the remaining antennas.

Despite a delay of several months due to the holding of a public debate demanded by Nantes elected officials, 5G mobile telephony has been operational since April 13 in the Nantes metropolitan area.

Only about thirty antennas with the particularity of being installed less than 100 meters from schools and nurseries had not been activated.

Nantes Métropole had in fact asked operators to adopt a "precautionary principle" until the publication of the ANSES report on the possible dangerousness of 5G.

This report will not have waited for the reopening of nurseries and schools.

Presented last Tuesday, he considers "unlikely that the deployment of 5G in the 3.5 Ghz frequency band presents new health risks".

Wave measurements from May

As a result of these conclusions, telephone operators are now free to turn on their remaining antennas, recognizes Nantes Métropole. And this is what is happening. Orange said Thursday that it would "proceed in the coming days to the additional opening planned". Same thing on the side of SFR where it is confirmed Friday "proceed with the lighting of the last antennas, following an exchange with Nantes Métropole".

In response, Nantes Métropole indicates that it is speeding up the implementation of the “wave observatory” presented on April 13. “We will install around forty wave sensors near schools and nurseries. The objective is to collect exposure measurements in real time, ”explains Franckie Trichet, vice-president in charge of digital innovation. These sensors should be operational by the end of May, instead of September.

“We wish to continue to work with the operators in good understanding.

Caution, transparency and pedagogy remain our watchwords ”, specifies the elected official.

Franckie Trichet calls for the maintenance of a precautionary principle concerning the subsequent deployment of the 5G 26 Ghz band, of which the ANSES report concluded that "the data are not, at the present time, sufficient to conclude on the 'existence or not of health effects'.

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