Iliad : Free is available in all the Fiber networks in the Calvados region

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Paris, October 7, 2021

Free has launched its Fiber offers on the Calvados and the Côte Fleurie Public Initiative Networks (PINs).

Free Fiber is therefore available on all of the region's FTTH networks, representing more than 300,000 homes.

Through the Calvados PIN, operated by the Covage network (part of the Altitude Group), 154,000 homes in 250 municipalities are now eligible for the Free Fiber offering, including in:

Cabourg	Mézidon Vallée d'Auge	Noues de Sienne
Vire Normandie	Condé-en-Normandie	Argences
Ouistreham	Souleuvre en Bocage	Pont-l'Évêque
Courseulles-sur-Mer	Douvres-la-Délivrande	Valdallière
Bayeux	Saint-Pierre-en-Auge	Les Monts d'Aunay
Houlgate	Luc-sur-Mer	Verson
Dives-sur-Mer	Merville-Franceville-Plage	Troarn
Falaise	Bernières-sur-Mer	Isigny-sur-Mer

By the end of 2021, Free Fiber will be available in all the municipalities covered by the Calvados PIN, i.e. over 300 municipalities altogether.

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On the Côte Fleurie PIN, also operated by the Covage network, Free is now offering its Fiber services to 5,000 homes in the municipalities of:

Deauville	Tourgéville	Vauville
Saint-Arnoult	Saint-Pierre-Azif

In the coming months all of the homes served by this PIN should be eligible for Free Fiber.

In addition to its presence on the Calvados and the Côte Fleurie PINs, Free's Fiber offerings are already available in the AMII1 areas in the whole agglomeration of Caen, covering 144,000 homes.

In all of these areas, businesses covered by the FTTH networks and interested in Fiber are eligible for the Free Pro offering on https://pro.free.fr.

Free's partnership with the Calvados and the Côte Fleurie PINs illustrates its aim of offering fiber services throughout France and being able to propose a fiber plan to French consumers through the Freebox Pop (€29.99/month for 12 months and then €39.99/month).

Additionally, Free is the only operator in France to offer 10G-EPON fiber technology2 (subject to the subscriber having a compatible plan and Freebox).

As from today, people living in the Calvados region can check their eligibility and subscribe for Free Fiber at www.free.fr, or on 1033 (a freephone number - France only - dedicated to Free Fiber), or in the Free store in Caen.

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About Free

Free - an iliad Group subsidiary - is the inventor of the Freebox, the first multiservice box on ADSL. Free is behind numerous innovations in the Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband access segment. Since January 2012, Free has brought mobile phone usage within everyone's reach with straightforward offerings at very attractive prices. As at June 30, 2021, Free had over 20 million subscribers in France (6.8 million Broadband and Ultra-Fast Broadband subscribers and 13.3 million mobile subscribers). On May 29, 2018, the Group launched its mobile network in Italy under the iliad brand, becoming the country's fourth mobile operator, and had over 7.8 million subscribers at June 30, 2021. With the acquisition of Play, the leading mobile network operator in Poland, the iliad Group has become the sixth-largest mobile operator in Europe by number of subscribers (excluding M2M).

• AMII areas: medium-populated areas of France in which fiber networks are rolled out using private funds, following calls for expressions of investment intentions ("appels à manifestation d'intentions d'investissement").
  2 10G-EPON fiber technology: maximum theoretical speeds of 8 Gbps download and 700 Mbps upload, subject to use of compatible devices.

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Fiber offer subject to conditions, eligibility and actual connection of the subscriber's home. See free.fr for full terms and conditions and eligibility. Connectible FTTH socket: a socket for which the link between the shared access point and the optical splitter has been put in place by the building operator, which the Group can access in accordance with its co-financing commitments, and for which the connection to the Group's network has been completed or is in progress.

Start-up fee: €49. Termination fee: €49.

1033: freephone number (access & call), France only.

Freebox ADSL unbundled subscribers eligible for Free Fiber will be contacted by Free with a proposal to migrate their offer, which will be carried out by a technician at their home. The fiber installation is provided at no cost to the subscriber.

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