Arcep publishes the results of its 2017 audit Orange in the lead, Bouygues Telecom and SFR neck and neck, Free Mobile trails behind

Arcep is publishing the results of its 18th annual quality audit of the the services sold by mobile operators in Metropolitan France. More than a million measurements were taken on 2G, 3G and 4G systems across the country, in every department, both indoors and outdoors, and on transport systems: regional railway (TER), suburban “Transiliens” railway, commuter trains (RER), the underground, high-speed railway (TGV) and motorways. The audit focused on the most widely used mobile services: web browsing, video watching, data transfers, texting and voice calls. The purpose of the tests that were performed was to assess the performance of operators’ networks in a fully comparable fashion, and this under a wide variety of conditions and circumstances.