Exchange of good practices.
The city of Lille has announced that in partnership with SFR, 4G keys will be distributed to a number of scholarship students to allow them free access to the Internet.
This is part of the commitment made by the operator as part of the deployment of 5G on the territory of the municipality.
There are no less than 2,000 “connection kits” and as many 4G keys that SFR will make available to students free of charge from the beginning of October.
After completing an online application, beneficiaries will be able to surf the Internet for 5 months for no round.
4G keys and much more
In fact, this operator's approach is part of the commitments signed with the municipality last May for the deployment of the 5G network on the municipal territory.
A kind of counterpart to the lifting of the moratorium on “the installation or ignition of 5G antennas” voted by the city council in October 2020. A gesture of goodwill on the part of SFR which, like its competitors, was not in no way obliged to comply with this suspension of the launch of this new mobile broadband network.
For its part, the city finds its account there since it has made the fight against digital insecurity one of its priorities.
At the end of last year, in particular, the city, Emmaüs Connect and SFR had enabled the distribution of tablets, laptops, SIM cards and smartphones to inhabitants of Lille in a precarious situation.
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