Soon is the end of an old network now: the 2g. It is Orange that will attract the first since the company has long announced its intention to finish 2G since 2026.
However, the operator had not detailed its road map. This is now the case with the formalization of a first wave of cuts, which will take place on March 31, 2026. On that date, the Basque coast will be worried (in 64), including the cities of Biarritz, Anglet and Bayona.
These municipalities participate in a pilot test that will allow you to see if everything goes well. As of May 12, 2026, Los Landes (40) and the rest of the Pyrées-Atlantique (64) will continue, then Ariège (09), Haute-Garonne (31), Le Gers (32), lot (46), Lot-Et-Gerrinne (47), Le Hautes-Pyrénées (65) and Tarn-egaron (82).
More than 2 ga late December 2026
If everything takes place without addict, “from the end of September 2026”, the 2G will be “definitely arrested in the rest of continental France,” specifies the orange.
Most operators have requested this 2G network cut. Sfr and Bouygues Telecom will also do the same at the end of 2026 -I don’t have one, he doesn’t care. However, it raises problems for certain devices that operate only in 2G. This is the case of certain elevators whose SIM card is connected to this network of another age. However, companies that manage these devices will have to comply with them, despite their postponement application.
3G must also be arrested “since the end of 2028,” Orange explains, for whom the good coverage of the French territory in 4G (which covers 99.9% of the population in continental France) justifies this trial.
Beyond the mobile network, France is in operation according to its high -speed plan launched in 2013 by the Government. Since the beginning of the year and until the end of 2028, another aging network has been gradually arrested, that of ADSL and copper.
Source: BFM TV
