Orange France announced in a short statement that it was ending discussions with Iliad subsidiary Free Mobile on a 5G network sharing deal, saying that the decision had been driven by a divergence in deployment strategy. The two rivals had previously negotiated terms of a five-year partnership to share cell sites and passive infrastructure covering municipalities with a population of less than 10,000 people.
It is unclear whether this agreement, signed in early 2020, had provisions for the future roll-out of 5G sites.
