5G with 4G speeds -

F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes

  • On November 20, SFR opened the 5G ball in France in Nice.

  • The advertised speeds are not always there, despite a compatible terminal and subscription.

On November 20, SFR opened the 5G ball in France in Nice.

With the promise, and it is the mayor Christian Estrosi (LR) himself who announced it, "of a speed ten times higher than that of 4G".

Since then, in a climate of persistent mistrust of part of the population on this new mobile standard, the other operators have also started.

But then, a few months later, what does it look like?

The advertised speeds are not always there, despite a compatible terminal and subscription.

"The speed change is not significant"

In fact, to ensure a significant increase in its flow, it is necessary, so to speak, that all the planets are aligned.

It all depends on the equipment and choices of your service provider and the frequency of the antenna to which you are connected.

Mathis, a young man from Nice keen on new technologies, explains: there is the “real 5G” on the 3.5 GHz band and the “fake”, in this case with his operator Free, in 700 MHz, the same antennas than for 4G.

Even if in both cases your terminal will indicate being connected in 5G, only the first will allow higher speeds.

“The gear change is absolutely not significant until the new antennas are active,” he explains.

It reached up to 302 Mbps on Avenue Jean-Médecin, but has rarely exceeded 110 Mbps elsewhere.

Or the speeds of 4G.

Free indicated in mid-January that it had deployed six 3.5 GHz antennas in Nice.

Still nothing to water the whole city.

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At Orange, we recorded up to 860.55 Mbps in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, but this is still far from being the norm.

"5G is scalable and it is especially made to relieve congestion 4G while traffic increases by 40 to 50% every year," said the management of the operator for the great Southeast.

Today, we are at speeds three to four times above 4G.

Ultimately, only, it will be ten times higher.

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