For legislation that doesn’t hold back investment and innovation in the digital sector

Fully aware of their social responsibility, digital companies are fully prepared to engage in dialogue and consultation, as they have demonstrated through their voluntary commitments, for example on information for cell phone users, and in all the multi-stakeholder bodies that have been set up by the public authorities for many years, notably on subjects linked to exposure to radio waves (see the work of COMOP/COPIC).

At a time when the French government’s highest authorities, as part of the Responsibility and Solidarity Pact, are giving high priority to simplifying the lives of businesses and easing the constraints weighing on them, and are citing the digital sector as an example, when the government, with Arnaud Montebourg and Axelle Lemaire in particular, is emphasizing digital technology and innovation in its industrial policy (34 plans for industrial reconquest, industry plan contract, France Très haut débit, etc.), and when French digital companies are positioning themselves among the most innovative in buoyant markets such as connected objects, connected cars and smart cities, digital companies are alarmed by the paradox of the digital economy.At a time when French digital companies are among the most innovative in buoyant markets such as connected objects, connected cars and smart cities, digital companies are alarmed by the paradox of a proposed law that aims to multiply the obstacles to mobile network deployment, to the availability of infrastructure and innovative terminals that are more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly, to the development of connected objects and, in general, which is a source of decline and encourages mistrust of mobile and wireless digital technology, without any scientific basis, thus paving the way for a proliferation of disputes.