[iliad press release] iliad teams up with Digicel in the French West Indies and Guiana to deploy its mobile services offering...
02 Junho 2020 - 3:00AM
[iliad press release] iliad teams up with Digicel in the French
West Indies and Guiana to deploy its mobile services offering in
the region
Paris, June 2, 2020
ILIAD TEAMS UP WITH DIGICEL IN THE FRENCH
WEST INDIES AND GUIANA TO DEPLOY ITS MOBILE SERVICES OFFERING IN
THE REGION
The iliad Group is pleased to announce that it
has set up a joint venture with the Digicel Group.
The joint venture company will own the mobile
telephony network (i.e. the network infrastructure and active
network equipment) on behalf of the two groups in the French West
Indies (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and
Saint-Barthélemy) and French Guiana. Both operators will keep
their own core networks and frequency licenses and will continue to
be fully independent from a commercial perspective.
The iliad Group and the Digicel Group will
jointly invest in the new company in order to significantly
increase the number of mobile sites in the region and therefore
raise coverage and speeds.
The objective is to ultimately have one of the
largest telecom infrastructure networks in the French West
Indies.
About the
iliad Group
Founded in 1999, in the space of 20 years the
iliad Group has grown into a major telecommunications player in
France and Italy, employing 11,000 people and generating €5.3
billion in revenues in 2019. As the parent company of Free – the
inventor of triple play and the Freebox – iliad is an integrated
fixed and mobile ultra-fast communications operator, standing out
for its straightforward and innovative offerings. At end-March
2020, the iliad Group had nearly 20 million subscribers in France
(6.5 million fixed-line subscribers and 13.3 million mobile
subscribers). In Italy – where the Group launched its business on
May 29, 2018 under the iliad brand, becoming the country’s fourth
mobile operator – it had over 5.8 million subscribers at end-March
2020. iliad is listed on Euronext Paris (ILD).
www.iliad.fr/en/
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