The operator
Free Mobile, troublemaker of the purring landscape
of French mobile operators, has enjoyed great success since its launch. He
It seems that 2 months after the start of operations, it has already attracted
plus
of 2 million customers.
If the start was rather quiet on the network side, since then, two breakdowns
important ones affected this one, the last of which a few days ago
only, highlighting a necessarily complicated relationship withOrange,competitor but also
supplierof the so-called “roaming” service. This allows Free
to have a network where it is not yet established.
According to
the newspaper Le Monde here, an Orange spokesperson recently declared that
"if incidents on the Free Mobile network were to affectonquality of service", thenthe agreement could be
suspended:
This is a serious threat, in fact, the Free network does not cover
at the moment, in accordance with its obligations that between 27 and 30% of users,
who therefore very often use the Orange network in a transparent manner
for them. We can imagine the impact that such a suspension could have for
Free customers and we cannot imagine that such a threat could be implemented
execution, but it is still symptomatic of a relationship
tense.
To try to explain the difficulties encountered, a
traffic higher than initially plannedlinked to
success of the Free offer but also to the success ofoffer for 2
euroswhich brought out many slightly dated mobiles which do not
only workEdge(2G) instead ofla 3G
supported by the Free network. THEcommunications Edge passant
according to Arcep exclusively by the Orange network.
We will follow the next episodes of this tense soap opera with
attention !
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By : Keleops AG
founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.
