JCDecaux accelerates the roll-out of small cells on its street furniture in France
January 28 2019 - 11:40AM
JCDecaux
accelerates the roll-out of small cells on its street furniture in
France
Paris, January
28th, 2019 -
JCDecaux S.A. (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor
advertising company worldwide, has announced that following the
publication by the ANFR (National Frequency Agency) report in
December 2018 - demonstrating the relevance of the small cells
installed on JCDecaux street furniture - the Group will provide
support for French telecoms operators to roll out small cells in
around ten French cities in 2019. To this end, it will draw on the
expertise gained in pilot projects undertaken with these operators
in France since 2016.
As connectivity is now accepted as
essential to the development of smart cities, JCDecaux is committed
to enabling the advance of this technology in France by installing
small cells (boxes that boost network coverage in their vicinity)
on its street furniture. The aim is to enable telecoms operators to
improve the coverage and performance of their mobile networks for
both voice and data traffic in the highly populated urban centres,
greatly benefiting cities and their inhabitants.
The deployment of a high-quality
network has become a major strategic advantage to cities looking to
enhance their appeal and competitiveness. Thanks to an extensive
and unrivalled network in France, and its unique international
expertise JCDecaux offers aesthetically pleasing, integrated
solutions that respect its advertising concession agreements, local
urban environmental policies and levels of exposure to radio waves.
This scalable technology platform is able to meet today's
connectivity needs and facilitate the services of the future:
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The density required for the 3G and 4G mobile
networks;
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The availability of an efficient Wi-Fi
network;
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The expansion of low bandwidth networks required
for the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and related
services.
The solutions offered by JCDecaux
have been in place since 2014, with the installation of 200 small
cells on bus shelters in Amsterdam for Vodafone, and make it
possible to install up to 4 small cells on each item of street
furniture with a limited visual impact, offering cities
multi-operator deployment solutions that enable the perfect
integration of these technologies in the urban environment. In
2015, the Group created JCDecaux Link, a division dedicated to
developing connectivity, which now operates in 10 countries
(Germany, Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, Italy, Mongolia, Panama,
the Netherlands and the USA), working for major groups such as
Vodafone, Verizon, Orange, Telefónica and América Móvil.
The pilot projects that the Group
has been running with mobile operators in France since 2016
provided an opportunity for the ANFR to evaluate the impact of
these solutions on network quality and radio wave exposure on the
local population. The conclusions of the ANFR report, which was
published in December 2018, confirmed that small cells could triple
download speeds and gave a positive opinion of the public's
exposure to radio waves, particularly due to their shorter distance
to users and the reduction in smartphone power by between two and
five times, which limits the exposure to radio waves at the same
time as increasing battery life.
Jean-Charles
Decaux, Chairman of the Executive Board and Co-Chief Executive
Officer of JCDecaux, said: "We are delighted
to announce today that we are accelerating the roll-out of small
cells on our street furniture in France, after several years of
promoting their benefits and developing them in France and abroad.
Through this initiative, JCDecaux, as a long-standing partner of
city authorities, is showing that its advertising displays provide
an excellent way of meeting the public's connectivity needs. The
awards received by JCDecaux at the Small Cell Forum in recent years
("Small Cell Technology and Deployment Enablers" in 2015,
"Excellence in Commercial Deployment" in the urban small cell
deployment category in 2017) are testament to our pre-eminence in
this area and underline the expertise of our teams in providing an
effective global solution that is respectful of the urban
environment. JCDecaux is dedicated to help create cities that are
increasingly open, accessible and attractive, and we believe that
the deployment of a very advanced infrastructure is a pre-requisite
to creating a smart city. This could well be the source of new
products and services that benefit everyone and which create value,
growth and jobs."
Key Figures for
JCDecaux
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2017 revenue: €3,493m*, H1 2018
revenue: €1,643m
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JCDecaux is listed on the
Eurolist of Euronext Paris and is part of the Euronext 100 and
Euronext Family Business indexes
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JCDecaux is part of the
FTSE4Good index
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N°1 worldwide in street
furniture (543,050 advertising panels)
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N°1 worldwide in transport
advertising with more than 215 airports and 250 contracts in
metros, buses, trains and tramways (356,320 advertising
panels)
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N°1 in Europe for billboards
(141,630 advertising panels)
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N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Europe (672,220 advertising panels)
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N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Asia-Pacific (216,290 advertising panels)
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N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Latin America (77,190 advertising panels)
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N°1 in outdoor advertising in
Africa (26,770 advertising panels)
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N°1 in outdoor advertising in
the Middle-East (18,650 advertising panels)
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Leader in self-service bike
rental scheme: pioneer in eco-friendly mobility
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1,074,113 advertising panels in
more than 80 countries
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Present in 4,033 cities with
more than 10,000 inhabitants
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13,040 employees
* Restated from
the retrospective application of IFRS 15, applicable from
January 1st, 2018
Communications Department:
Agathe Albertini
+33 (0) 1 30 79 34 99 - agathe.albertini@jcdecaux.com
Investor Relations: Arnaud
Courtial
+33 (0) 1 30 79 79 93 - arnaud.courtial@jcdecaux.com
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