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French Networks May Be Asked to Terminate National Roaming Pact
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France's Competition Authority has ruled that the French mobile networks, Iliad and Orange cannot extend their national roaming agreement.
Iliad, which operates the Free Mobile branded service has a roaming agreement with Orange covering the parts of France that its newish network has not yet reached.
The Competition Authority's president, Bruno Lasserre says that Orange should exercise an option to end the roaming deal in 2016 and not extend it to the full term, which would have seen the agreement last until 2018.
"The roaming contract with Orange has given Free a considerable advantage," Lasserre said. "Roaming can give some players the ability to give the market a new direction. It needs to be regulated and it needs to have a time limit."
Since Free Mobile launched its services, there has been a price war between the country's four mobile networks, resulting in a surge in cost-cutting measures by the networks and large scale redundancies.
Free Mobile has signed up around 5.2 million customers since its launch last January.
Tags: [orange] [iliad] [France]
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