It was the fourth mobile network operator to obtain a metropolitan French 3G license in 2009.

Free Mobile provides wireless services to 15.468 million subscribers as of September 2024.

Free Mobile application has been agreed by French regulatory authority ARCEP on 17 December 2009.

Free Mobile signed a 2G and 3G roaming agreement with Orange on 3 March 2011.

[10] An estimated 18,000 antennas, depending on the frequencies, are required to cover the whole French metropolitan area.

ARCEP confirmed that Free covers enough of the country to open commercially and start using its roaming agreement with Orange.

For the few first years Free will pay Orange to get a full national coverage, for the roaming license agreement as it arrived late to the mobile market.

Initial bidding price was set at 416 million euros per 5 MHz duplex band.

3G data roaming throttling will be applied on Orange network: Free Mobile was awarded frequencies in several French overseas departments and territories on 13 October 2016.

Including Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte, Saint-Barthelemy and Saint-Martin.