France’s communications regulator, Arcep, has issued a call for expressions of interest (CEI) for multi-network mobile plans, for businesses and public safety organisations among others.domestic roaming france

It is also keen to establish a directory of operators that offer or would like to offer such plans – that is enabling customers to access several mobile networks from a single SIM, keeping the same phone number, and switching between networks as required. The scope includes machine-to-machine (M2M) commnications, as well as between people. domestic roaming france

In addition to public safety organisations, according to Arcep, this facility is potentially important to companies looking to secure their assets and products, and one network might not provide sufficiently good and reliable coverage in all their locations.

Practical ways to manifest yourself

The call for expressions of interest is open from May 14, 2020 to July 17, 2020:

• Companies and public entities interested in multi-network offers are invited to come forward and express their needs on the platform dedicated to them: the questionnaire
• mobile operators wishing to market multi-network offers based on technical resources in France and wishing to give them visibility on the market, as well as mobile operators who can position themselves as partners, are invited to complete the following form: the questionnaire
• Companies that believe that the existence of multi-network mobile offers would allow the development of new services and innovative uses can also contact Arcep at this address: sharing-networks arcep.fr domestic roaming france
• Any contribution can also be sent to this address: sharing-networks arcep.fr