Talk:France/@comment-35153895-20180330165136/@comment-24682153-20180330204955

Well, yes and no. Free is the weakest network at the lowest prices right now. It can be good in the cities, even sometimes outside; in other areas you will fall back to Orange roaming with is throttled. Check this site of French regulator ARCEP and scroll down to the graphics az the bottom.

In 2017 Free covered lees than the other three networks, but offers Orange (at low speeds as a back-up). What Free's international roaming is concerned, it's limited to 2G/3G, no 4G/LTE roaming so far. This gives a quite patchy coverage in some countries where 3G has not been employed outside towns and most internet is channeled to 4G/LTE.

Turning to their competitors, some don't offer international roaming at all for prepaid and Orange as incumbent is surely much more expensive than Free. But their French coverage and 4G/LTE roaming is clearly better than Free's options.