No, the Swiss Federal Council does not want to stop the deployment of 5G

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5G unleashes passions on the other side of the Alps. As in France, citizen movements are created to try to ban any deployment of 5G in Swiss, out of fear for the environment and human health. But federal officials in charge of the environment told our colleagues to Mobile World Live Thursday, February 13, 2020 that the rumor that they are about to ban future infrastructure installations is "Unfounded".

THE POTENTIAL OF 5G BRIDé

The Federal Office for the Environment (Ofev) even claims to have communicated to the 26 cantons the procedure to follow in order to authorize this new standard for mobile telephony … and to choose the antennas corresponding to their specific needs. If the institution acts only "cantons and municipalities" demanded a moratorium on the matter, it said no instructions had been given at the national level. A way of implying that antenna and base station installations should therefore continue.

However, the Confederation decided on Saturday 15 February 2020 to postpone the technical directives it had prepared for the attention of the cantons to raise the maximum thresholds in terms of wave power. 5G should be restrained and will not be able to unlock its full potential until the rules are changed. It is precisely this lack of a clear position at government level that the opponents denounce, who once again demonstrated in January.

SWISS AMBITIONS BRAKED UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THE STREET

A report published in November 2019, which could not definitively rule out the health risks of this technology, set fire to the powder. Under pressure from the street, any decision regarding the authorization of adaptive antennas – and only these – which offer the possibility of directing radio waves to the user directly rather than diffusely, should be postponed until what scientific studies dispel concerns from civil society.

The existing equipment, whose deployment began in April 2019 after the Swiss telecom operators – Swisscom, Sunrise and Salt – spent € 357 million on auctions, is not in question. While they promised to cover 90% of the territory in December 2019, the moratoria initiated at the local level have clearly curbed their ambitions. A setback for the Confederation which, often mocked for its conservatism, intended to prove its modernity by becoming one of the first western countries fully covered in 5G … after the micro-states of Monaco and San Marino, which took advantage of their small size to take this title a year ago already.

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