Wednesday January 8, 2025, Romain Bonenfant, general director of the French Telecoms Federation (FFTélécoms), and representatives of the mobile telephone operators Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange and SFR inaugurated, in the presence of Vincent le Duff, sub-prefect of Vendôme, by Bernard Pillefer, senator of Loir-et-Cher, by Catherine Lheureux, vice-president of the departmental council, by Yves Lecuir, departmental councilor, by Christophe Degruelle, president of Agglopolys, and Éric Peschard, mayor of Landes-le-Gaulois, a new 4G site for mobile Internet access.
A single shared site for 4 operators
This pylon has ensured, since April 2024, mobile telephony coverage in the municipality of Landes-le-Gaulois with maximum theoretical speeds of several tens of megabits per second (Mb/s). It also integrates, within a single 4G site, the equipment of the 4 mobile telephone operators.
This achievement is part of the “targeted coverage” system, which is one of the main axes of the agreement “ New Deal Mobile » (1)concluded in January 2018 between operators and public authorities. The “targeted coverage” system allows communities to identify areas to be covered by pylons. The operators undertake to build and finance these sites entirely at their own expense.
A key issue for land use planning
All participants underlined the exemplary involvement of all stakeholders in the realization of this project. Landes-le-Gaulois is no longer in a gray zone today! This type of deployment of modern means of communication is essential in rural areas and helps to reduce the digital divide between dense urban areas and rural areas. As the sub-prefect pointed out: “ This event is a major issue for economic development, access to public services, education, culture, tourism, security and, more broadly, for the balance of our territory. »
(1) Mobile telephone operators signed an agreement with the public authorities in January 2018 to accelerate mobile coverage. This agreement makes it possible in the very short term to find a solution for the many municipalities in the white or gray zone program which do not yet have a 4G pylon and site.
