5G: the auction for the allocation of frequencies will start on September 29 (illustration) -

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See you on September 29.

It is on this date that the auction will begin to distribute among French operators the new radio frequencies necessary for the launch of 5G, announced Monday the president of the telecoms regulator Sébastien Soriano, interviewed on France Info.

A new essential step for the future generation of mobile networks, the first deployments of which are expected at the end of the year.

September 29 will mark the start of the main auction for the allocation of frequencies, which should bring several billion euros to the State.

Initially scheduled for April but postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic, these auctions should allow operators to allocate 11 frequency “blocks” in the band ranging from 3.4 to 3.8 gigahertz (GHz), and open the the way to the first commercial 5G services in certain French cities by the end of the year.

Hostility of part of the public

While 4G has made it possible to develop mobile internet and video uses, 5G must ultimately speed up everything, increase the number of video (including video games), decongest mobile networks in certain areas, and connect everything that is not there. is currently not: factories, transport, autonomous vehicles, health, etc.

However, 5G arouses hostility from part of public opinion and several local politicians or NGOs, who question the interest for society of this new technology, citing risks to health or a unfavorable environmental balance.

Some have called for a moratorium on the allocation of frequencies in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band.

But the government wanted to maintain its schedule without waiting for the next report from the National Health Security Agency (ANSES) scheduled for early 2021, highlighting in particular the fact that most of the advanced countries have already allocated these frequencies and are more advanced in the process of implementing 5G.

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