Co -owners: this new expenditure for your elevators is inevitable … and urgent

The end of 2G and 3G networks is fast approaching. It may cause the immobilization of thousands of elevators. To avoid this, the co -owners will have to get their hands in the pocket.

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Co -owner in a four -story residence, you are relieved to have finished adjusting your share of the elevator’s repair, broken for several months. Approximately 3,000 euros For your share, it’s steep … However, you will have to spend a little money for the elevator in the coming months. It is indeed the main equipment of the condominiums impacted by the upcoming stop of telecommunications networks 2G and 3G. At Orange, the 2G will go out definitively in 2026, confirmed the telecom operator on July 7. Ditto for its competitors Bouygues and SFR. 3G, it will be stopped between 2028 and 2029. However, the 2G and 2G networks are used in half of the elevators in France, or 300,000, for telealete systems, when the cabin is immobilized between two floors.

Stop the 2G and 3G networks “Will force the condominiums to modernize their devices”recently warned the start-up Manda, specializing in co-ownership trustees. A technical adaptation “Often expensive, which could lead to a punctual increase in loads” of co-ownership, she alerted. “A technician will have to put the elevator to stop for two to three hours to change the 2G/3G module for a 4G/5G module. It costs Between 1,000 and 1,500 euros per elevatorexcluding technician travel costs ”specifies Eytan Koren, the boss of Manda. An amount hardly distant from the annual cost of the maintenance of an elevator, which he estimates at 2,000 euros. “This can represent a significant cost for co -owners in a small building”he underlines. A cost to which will be added that of New telephone subscription in 4G or 5G.

Rental investment: a much higher cost than planned for the future status of the private lessor?

Many elevators soon to be stopped?

In view of these additional charges, there is no doubt that the replacement of elevators’ telealarms will have to be subject to the vote of the general meetings of co -owners. Gold “Decisions are slow in co -ownership. The end of the 2G and 3G networks, planned in the very short term, will make very difficult, if not impossible, the upgrade (of telealarms) within the required deadlines ”worried about the Federation of elevators recently. However, these telealarms being compulsory in elevators, the impossibility of upgrading them “Is likely to impose a Device stopping“, Preventing its president, Olivier Rouvière. And the latter to worry about the future development of the rate of “availability” Elevators in France, today 99%. This means that every day, 99% of the country’s 645,000 elevators are neither broken down or maintenance.

The United Unis, which represents the condominium trustees, and the USH (Social Union for Housing), which brings together social landlords, “Are also worried”added Olivier Rouvière, stressing that France counts Only nine elevators for 1,000 inhabitants, Against 22 per thousand in Spain and 17 per thousand in Italy. If, tomorrow, these too rare elevators are arrested for lack of telealarms in operation, families living in towers must prepare for difficult days …