Subscribers Orange will now benefit from 4G continuously on the TGV line between Paris and Lyon, with the installation of 200 antennas along the tracks announced Wednesday, February 10 the operator from its national mobile surveillance center in Lyon.
Orange is the first operator to deploy such a network on a TGV line, Lyon-Paris line representing the biggest traffic in France with 40 million passengers per year, according to Nicolas Roy, CTO networks and services Orange France.
The installation of such coverage represented “a technical and technological challenge,” said at a press conference Olivier Faure, Director Orange Central East because TGVs are “true Faraday cages (speakers to protect from electromagnetic fields, ie) tight waves.”
a rolling train at high speed, the rocking train without stopping an antenna to another, performing as “a relay race where every 10 meters should pass the baton to the next runner”, illustrated Roy.
Two hundred antennas are complemented network along the line – except in the tunnels – “meeting the challenges of a movement to over 300km / h,” according to Orange
. passengers who are not customers of Orange will not benefit from this high-speed network. The incumbent plans within months to completely cover other TGV lines as Paris-Lyon-Marseille and Lille.
Also, Orange announced now that 73 ski resorts in the Alps, Jura, the Vosges and the Pyrenees were covered by 4G this winter against sixty last year, the challenge here is to cope with the seasonal influx of population.
(With AFP)
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