VIDEO. Toulouse and Nantes chosen by SFR to experience 5G and its very mobile broadband

It will be like having the speed of XXL format fiber, but on his laptop. With the possibility of ordering your car from your mobile or for a surgeon to carry out a remote operation in real time. The mobile operator SFR said Wednesday that he will experiment in the coming months the 5G on the cities of Nantes and Toulouse after receiving the approval of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (Arcep)

The same day, Orange announced the deployment of this technology on Marseille, which will complete the Lille and Douai test sites. And the day before, it's their competitor
Bouygues, which for the first time carried out a test in real conditions in Bordeaux

After having made the first 5G connection in France on May 3rd and then carried out the first 5G experiment in real situation in the 3.5GHz band, SFR will lead his next experiments # 5G in Toulouse and Nantes # 5GSFR https://t.co/dFYcY2ZIzC pic.twitter.com/RhAcDlien8

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This frantic race to conquer the future market of 5G will take advantage of Toulouse and Nantes. But not before a few months, when the authorization of commercial launch will be issued, a priori in 2020. They will be part of the first cities to be able to benefit, as had already been the case for the Pink City, during the commissioning of the 4 G.

Work on the network as of this summer

By next year, SFR will indeed carry out from this summer work on its antennas and its network to test this new technology and its different functions. Because for the time being, the operator has only tested it outdoors once, on May 23, in Vélizy.

"When put into service in 2020, this will allow Toulouse and Nantes to pbad a bitrate of 300 Mbit / s with 4G at least 1 and up to 10 Gbit / s. The latency will also be reduced, which is very interesting especially for telemedicine, home automation and everything related to connected objects, "explains Guillaume Fauré, director of regional relations Southwest at SFR.