Tuesday, November 6, 2012

French competition authority to look at Free Mobile roaming deal

The French government has called on the country’s independent competition watchdog Autorite de la Concurrence to examine if Iliad group’s Free Mobile operation should be allowed to expand its existing cellular roaming deal with Orange France. The authority will consider whether an expansion of the 2G and 3G wholesale agreement will give a ‘lasting advantage’ to Free Mobile, whose customers are able to roam on the Orange network while Free builds out its own infrastructure. Competitors have complained that Free is being given an unfair advantage as they were not able to benefit from similar deals while they were in the early stages of deploying their own networks


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