France fourth 3G license awarded to Free Mobile

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Free Mobile, a subsidiary of broadband group Iliad, became the fourth mobile network to get 3G mobile network licence at the cost of EUR 240 million from French telecommunications regulator Arcep.

The company’s target is to cover 90 percent of the population with its 3G network within eight years, to launch the service within two years and to host MVNOs. The frequency license will be provided to Free Mobile in January.

Free Mobile was the only candidate for the 5 MHz licence in the 2.1GHz band in a procedure launched on 1 August and its application was accepted in consideration of all applicable criteria.

Clear and innovative services at competitive prices particularly designed to help facilitate access to the mobile internet is what the company plans to offer to the consumers.

The applications for remaining 10 MHz of spectrum of the 2.1 GHz band will be called in the first half of next year with the purpose to enable the deployment of new generation and very high-speed mobile networks.