Deal gives Free access to tower- and rooftop-based sites
Orange towerco TOTEM has signed an agreement with Xavier Niel’s Iliad, providing access to the towerco’s tower- and rooftop-based sites in France. Iliad operates under the Free brand in France (and Italy) and its mobile network already provides 5G coverage to over 87% of France’s population and 4G coverage to 99.8%.
TOTEM was launched in November 2021 and operates in Spain and France with more than 26,000 sites from which to offer infrastructure and connectivity solutions to customers, including other operators.
This is TOTEM’s second customer announcement in as many months: in October, TOTEM’s CEO Nicholas Roy (pictured), told Mobile Europe, “We are working with Telefónica [España]and we will enable them to build the 5G network on our sites…and we are working for sure…to see what are the huge opportunities elsewhere in the Orange footprint and to see how we can expand it in Europe.”
Telefónica España has also signed a three-year 5G passive infrastructure upgrade deal with Vodafone’s Vantage Towers, covering more than 1,500 existing sites.