4G: Virgin Mobile and Bouygues Telecom hand in hand!

mobile operator Bouygues Telecom said Wednesday it has signed an agreement with Virgin Mobile will allow it to use its networks to provide telephony services fourth generation in the first half of 2014. “This agreement reflects the recognition by one of the major players in the market for quality 4G network Bouygues Telecom,” responded Didier Casas, the secretary general of the group. “This is a success for us,” he argued. But “to the extent that this Agreement will require preparation for its operational implementation, it will begin to apply in the first half of 2014,” said Didier Casas.

It is also a very nice shot for Virgin Mobile, the first French operator “virtual” (MNVO) without its own network, which leases its transmission channels to operators with a network, until now Orange and SFR. The official announcement of the agreement should be made on Wednesday in the presence of Virgin founder Richard Branson. Orange and SFR launched their offers fourth generation 4G mobile telephony, high-speed, and accelerate their deployment. The operator Bouygues Telecom, which launched its 4G network in Strasbourg in June, planned deployment at the national level on October 1

The 4G network -. That will be with a mobile compliant and ad hoc subscription a rate at least equivalent to that currently delivered by a fixed line high speed internet (fiber) – is a challenge for operators. They hope that these value-added offerings offset the decline in overall price that the market has experienced since the arrival of Free Mobile. With the arrival of Free Mobile on the market, the operator Virgin Mobile has seen its customers back in 2012 to 1.7 million customers, against 2 million customers in late 2011. Virgin Mobile France is independent of a capital perspective Virgin Mobile billionaire Richard Branson.