In france the mobile company ARCEP is thinking about planning to develope its current 3G network. by offering consumers more mobile access and to speed up the internet connectivity by several kbits/sec.

The french government wants to expand the 3G network in such way that it should reach every home.

therefore arcap is modifying orange france , and SFR’S authorisations in order to deploy UMTS technology in metropolitan france , in the 900MHz band which is currently used for  GSM.

for more detail:

http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/Feb2008/5837.htm