Earlier this year, all eyes turned to Free. The operator came on the mobile market in 2012 would he be able to respect, to January 12, 2015, its obligations to 3G coverage to 75% of the population as required unhooked his license in 2009? By mid-December, on the occasion of his departure speech, the former president of ARCEP (Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal), Jean-Ludovic Silicani, said that “according to information available to date, Free should be able to meet mid-January its obligation to cover 75% of the population, through its own frequencies “. January 12, Free filed documents evidencing compliance with its obligations mobile operator.
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It nonetheless remained the regulator to verify compliance statements on his own. It only makes ARCEP. Between January 29 and March 2, 2015, the telecom gendarme officers conducted over 40 000 measurements all over France to check on the ground, the reality of the 3G signal Free network. Results: for ARCEP, there is no doubt that “Free Mobile has fulfilled its obligation to 3G deployment to 12 January 2015″
Meanwhile, Free boasts. even today cover 78% of the population in 3G. And supporting figures, it stands as operator deploying its faster compared to the historic network of its competitors, notably with an effort to invest 23% of sales against 15% on average for the rest of the market. Competitors, Orange and SFR were being slapped on the wrist by ARCEP in 2009 for their coverage of late. But it was rate reaching the highest levels of 90% of the population. But we know, these are the last pockets of population that are most difficult to cover. We’ll see where will Free January 12, 2018 where he will cover nine-tenths of the population in 3G.
The question is whether the validation of the Authority will end the controversy on the way calculation of coverage of the 4th mobile operator. In September, Bouygues Telecom grabbed the Council of State to challenge the method of measuring ARCEP who is accused of taking into account the Orange network which relies Free in the roaming contract valid until 2018. A charge is disputed by the regulator. The “measurements were performed with terminals whose access to 2G and 4G networks as well as 3G networks of other providers were disabled” , says the Authority in a statement. In other words, only the 3G network was accessible Free, moreover “outside of buildings and not roaming with the network of another mobile operator” , in measurements. Nevertheless, it will remain at the Council of State to ensure this in a decision expected by the end of the year.
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