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Signed in 2012 between Orange and Free, it allowed the new entrant which serves only 27% of the French population, to launch its mobile offering nationally.
telecoms troublemaker, which in return pays between 500 and 700 million per year the incumbent operator and uses the Orange 2G network for voice and SMS to its customers, and part of the 3G network for data.
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Currently, Free has 11.3 million mobile customers.. Reportedly, 43% of them have contracted packages at 20 euros and 57% have subscribed to the offer to two euros per month.
Since its launch in Mobile in January 2012 Free has deployed its own network. And he had enough time, as competitors move to the Orange network. “If this service is justified to support the entry of a fourth mobile network operator, it can not in principle be sustainable” , confirming Arcep.
“It is now clear that homelessness will stop” , welcomes Didier Casas, Secretary General of Bouygues Telecom. Although this commercial contract with Orange is a maturity in 2018, some feared that Free had wanted to perpetuate it.
ARCEP decided to be lenient with Free. If it must begin as soon as possible to move from Orange in certain geographical areas, the regulator gave him until 2020 to cease all relations with the incumbent.
“We have estimated that the sudden extinction of homelessness in 31 December 2017, as provided in the contract, was not credible. We therefore support the process to make it work and whether effective “, says Sébastien Soriano, president of Arcep.
Adept compromise, leaving the institution, for the now, the stakeholders themselves negotiate the terms of this extinction. Orange and Free have until February 23 to discuss and then present to the regulator a stop roaming pattern. If it is not satisfied by the proposals of operators is Arcep will decide which antenna off, where and when.
Constable telecom, this position represents a change of course. Chaired by Jean-Ludovic Silicani, whose mandate expired at the end of 2014, the regulator considered that it was not within its functions to mix these commercial contracts signed between private actors.
But market pressure had become too strong for Arcep continues to hold off. The Macron law then came granted the right to position itself on the network sharing agreements
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The notice Arcep comes as Orange is negotiating the takeover of Bouygues Telecom. If the operation is successful, it would render obsolete the telecoms regulator guidelines. By then, Free could have completed its network by taking over certain assets of Bouygues Telecom.
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