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Orange firms up French 2G sunset timeline
Anne Morris2025-08-21T14:16:00
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Operator plans to retire its 2G network by end of 2026, with Anglet, Bayonne, and Biarritz set to be the first locations for the switch-off next year.
This article includes:
- Organisations: Altice; Arcep; Bouygues Telecom; Fédération des Ascenseurs; Free; Iliad; Orange France; Orange Group; Orange Wholesale; SFR.
- Geographies: Europe; France.
- People: Christel Heydemann.
- Themes: 2G; 3G; 4G; 5G; Internet of Things (IoT); Legacy decommissioning; Low-power wide area networks; Mobile networks; National roaming; Network retirement; Network switch-off; Wireless networks.
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