Saturday, February 1, 2014

Free Mobile and Orange oppose the pooling agreement ... - Mobiles News

SFR and Bouygues Telecom have signed an agreement for sharing a part of their mobile networks. This agreement concerns the Free Mobile and Orange competitors who are willing to make use in France and to the Commission E uropean.

plan sharing between SFR and Bouygues Telecom was unveiled yesterday. Bouygues TV and SFR should com “to share their antennas on 80% to 90% of the territory, 60% or 65% of the population.”

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Sources: “ Bouygues Télécom and SFR will share their antennas on 80% to 90% of the territory, 60% or 65% of the population”

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Free Mobile and Orange , the two operators would pool “their frequencies in areas of deployment priority (18% of the population, 63% of the territory),” which “would be fine beyond the simple sharing of active devices. “

Free Mobile and Orange also mention the threat of a deeper sharing than it looks with a pooling of frequencies, and also infrastructure to generate larger and offer more bandwidth speed, even 800 MHz. In addition, Free Mobile has a roaming agreement with the operator 3G Orange .

This agreement, for a period of three years, renewable on 1 January 2015.

However, in late 2013, Stéphane Richard, the owner of Orange, told the BBC that “the renewal of the contract for three years would not be a mere formality.” Free map therefore present SFR / Bouygues Télécom in its negotiations with Orange.

For if it contributes its network, 70% of calls from subscribers Free still be channeled through the Orange network, roaming have reported 718 million euros to the latter in 2013. An annuity it is not so easy to pass. “ operators-mobile-orange-sfr-Bougues-telecom-free-mobile-1

Recall that the objectives of this pooling network that disrupts the idea of ??infrastructure competition in France offer their customers a better coverage outside as the indoor and better quality of service by optimizing the mesh.

For operators, this pooling of technical equipment should generate “significant savings.” On the technical side of pooling , there are three possibilities to two operators: the passive infrastructure sharing (sites, technical rooms), the active equipment (antennas and connected equipment) and frequencies, opening the door, in the latter case, a beginning of consolidation, following the competition authority.

So it is understandable that the two operators have no contradiction to this infrastructure sharing.

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