Freemove Alliance

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The Freemove Alliance ( own spelling FreeMove ) is an alliance of four of the leading European mobile communications companies - Deutsche Telekom , Telia Company , Telecom Italia and Orange .

When it was founded under the name Mobile Alliance in April 2003, initially only three companies and their respective mobile phone subsidiaries were involved: Deutsche Telekom , Telecom Italia and Telefónica . Orange SA and its predecessor France Télécom SA with its Orange mobile phone subsidiary were added a little later. After almost a year, the four companies announced the name change to Freemove Alliance at a joint press conference .

The alliance should strengthen the competitive position of its members especially against Vodafone . A little later, the Starmap Mobile Alliance was formed as a competing cell phone group, but this disbanded in early 2007. The models of these alliances were the alliances of international airlines. The group's declared aim was to create a coordinated and improved range of international services and to achieve better conditions for purchasing cell phones from the respective manufacturers. The price advantage should be passed on to the customers. The services offered also focused on simplifying the roaming of voice and data services for business customers in over 100 countries.

In 2006 the founding member Telefónica left the alliance. It was a concession to the competition authorities. The O₂ taken over by Telefónica was in the competing Starmap Mobile Alliance and it was feared that it would distort competition. In the same year, the Scandinavian telecommunications group TeliaSonera , today Telia Company, was accepted as a new member.

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  1. ↑ Mobile Alliance becomes Freemove . In: Handelsblatt , March 29, 2014, accessed on May 20, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Mobile radio quartet attacks Vodafone . In: Computerwoche , April 2, 2004, accessed on May 20, 2017
  3. ↑ Sven-Olaf Suhl: TeliaSonera joins the Freemove mobile communications alliance . In: Heise Online , March 20, 2006, accessed on May 20, 2017