Unbundling, in France, refers to the obligation for the incumbent carrier France Telecom to lease the Local loop, because it is a natural monopoly. Free bundled ADSL offer milestonesĢ004-2006: Unbundled ADSL and 'triple play'

The offer was able to launch as soon as the incumbent was forced to stop abuse of dominant position and to apply fair wholesale prices. Since September 2002, Free contributed significantly to French ADSL boom. Free dial-up offer milestonesĢ002-2003: ADSL at a disruptive price In 2002, Free was the first ISP to provide a V.92 connection. Unlike its predecessors in the niche of access without subscription ( World Online on and Freesurf on ), Free's offer was not restricted in time or number of subscribers. ĭeveloping its own 3G and 4G networks, Free Mobile was launched in 2012 and became the fourth mobile network operator in France.įree was the third ISP in France to offer Internet access without a subscription or a surcharged phone number, on 26 April 1999. These boxes provide comprehensive telecommunication services such as high-speed Internet, telephone and digital television packages, leading Free to become the world's number one IPTV provider offering almost systematically IPTV to subscribers and optimizing it to be available on most landlines. It was the first company to offer a ' triple play' service in France through its self-produced singular Freebox set-top box, claiming to have invented the box marketing concept in France in reference to all the other French ISPs who thereafter released 'triple play' modems named to include the anglicism box as a suffix. Its head office is in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and it is the second-largest ISP in France.įree provides ISP services in France and in the 30 OECD countries. that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications to consumers in France.

is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Iliad S.A.