BROWSING: Iliad Group

Iliad said its 5G coverage rate in France currently reaches over 94.4% of the population The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted French operator Iliad a new €300 million ($329 million) loan to finance its 5G network rollouts, the company said in a release. This is...

The “largest private industrial 5G network in Europe” has opened in Calais, in France, using 59 small cell antennas to cover a 50,000 square-metre production site belonging to Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), the optical submarine division of telecoms vendor Nokia. The Finnish firm has...

Iliad S.A.'s Play acquires UPC Poland in $1.8 billion deal that puts it behind Orange as Poland's #2 telco.

  French telecommunications group Iliad announced it has selected Finnish vendor Nokia as its strategic partner for its 5G network deployments in France and Italy. The vendor has been working with Iliad since 2010 and has participated in the telco’s deployments of 3G and 4G networks. "By...

French telco targets 75% LTE coverage by the end of 2016 French telecom operator Iliad, which operates in the mobile market through its Free subsidiary, ended 2015 with 3.7 million LTE subscribers, posting 2 million net customer additions for the year. Revenue from mobile services...

France’s Iliad Group has put to rest its attempt to acquire a stake in U.S. operator T-Mobile US, citing a lack of interest from T-Mobile US parent company Deutsche Telekom. Iliad said the move follows “exchanges” with DT and “selected” T-Mobile US board members “who...