Orange seems to have taken everyone by surprise when it announced last week the end of its 2G networks for 2025 and 3G for 2028 in France. Bouygues Telecom is now calling for national consultation. “We are addressing an appeal to Arcep or the DGE (Direction Générale des Entreprises) to organize the subject”told us the Managing Director of Bouygues Telecom Benoît Torloting when we asked him about it.
“2025 is short”
The manager wanted to underline the impact of this decision on the industrial sector, recalling that 2G and 3G technologies were still used in a multitude of connected objects, elevators or even via e-call systems. automatic car emergency. Some white areas not yet benefiting from 4G could also be affected, according to him.
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As for the deadlines set by Orange, Benoît Torloting finds them fast. “2025 is short”, he commented. He does not announce a date, however, nor his intention to follow in Orange’s footsteps.