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Free Mobile S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Free S.A.S. that provides wireless Internet to consumers in France. It was the fourth mobile network operator to obtain a metropolitan French 3G license in 2009. It also obtained a 4G license in 2011.
Free was the third ISP in France to offer Internet access without a subscription or a surcharged phone number, on 26 April 1999. [10] Unlike its predecessors in the niche of access without subscription (World Online on 1999-04-01 and Freesurf [] on 1999-04-19), Free's offer was not restricted in time or number of subscribers.
When calling France from abroad, the leading zero should be omitted: for example, to call a number in Southwest France, one would dial +33 5 xx xx xx xx. French people usually state phone numbers as a sequence of five double-digit numbers, e.g., 0x xx xx xx xx (and not, for example, 0 xxx-xxx-xxx or 0xxx-xx-xxxx or 0xx-xxx-xxxx).
Free Mobile, a subsidiary of Iliad, was launched in 2012. As of December 2013, it was France's fourth largest mobile operator, having gained a 12% share of the market. [2] On August 1, 2014, Iliad SA publicly announced a bid to acquire a 56% stake in the United States wireless carrier T-Mobile US for US$16 billion.
Telecommunications in France are highly developed. France is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable , microwave radio relay , and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone service is widely available, expanding rapidly, and includes roaming service to ...
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In August 2000, France Télécom bought Orange plc from Vodafone for a total estimated cost of €39.7 billion. [21] [22] [23] At the time, France Télécom also bought stakes in several other international firms (GlobalOne, Equant, Internet Telecom, Freeserve, EresMas, NTL and Mobilcom), of which some have since been sold back. Through this ...
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