ILIAD 
By Paris, 19 April 2012
Free Mobile call plan - automatic access to the biggest Wi-Fi network in France on your smartphone with EAP-SIM technology
Three months after launching its mobile offering, Free
continues to innovate. The Free call plan (€15.99/month for
Freebox subscribers or €19.99/month for all other customers)
now includes unlimited automatic mobile Internet access on
Free's community WiFi network, FreeWiFi Secure.
Leveraging its full IP 3G network and its technological edge,
Free Mobile is the first operator to offer this service to
its Free call plan subscribers, enabling smartphones to
switch automatically from a 3G connection to the Free WiFi
community, which includes more than 4 million hotspots.
Free call plan subscribers connected to FreeWiFi Secure get
unlimited Internet access, without this data consumption
counting against their 3 GB fair-use limit. In addition to
this, the service considerably improves indoor data coverage,
in particular in dense zones.
This service uses the EAP-SIM authentication protocol and is
fully secure. Subscribers connect automatically to the
community WiFi network using a dedicated, personal IP
address. The SIM card takes care of authentication, so users
do not need to enter an identifier to connect to the
community network.
Subscribers can make unlimited use of the numerous functions
made available by Free but rarely offered by other mobile
operators, such as genuine Internet access from a mobile
telephone, i.e. access with no usage restrictions (VoIP,
newsgroup, FTP, etc.).
This new service epitomises the technological edge afforded
by the Free Mobile network.
Free Mobile is a subsidiary of Iliad. The Iliad Group, a leader in the French market for Internet access and telecommunications, includes Free, Free Mobile, Onetel and Iliad Telecom. The Iliad Group is listed on Eurolist in Euronext Paris under the symbol ILD.
This service is accessible subject to the use of an EAP-SIM-compatible smartphone (Extensible Authentication
Protocol Method for GSM and Subscriber Identity Module).
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