End of Free Mobile: what will happen to your plan from December 1 for the 15.8 million subscribers

On December 1, 2026, the Free Mobile company will disappear, absorbed by Free, the other subsidiary of the Iliad group. Packages, prices and numbers will not change, but subscribers' personal data will pass from one company to another.

Free warned its mobile subscribers in an insert slipped into their latest invoices. “The Free Mobile company merges with the Free company on December 1, 2026,” writes the operator, before adding: “For you, nothing changes! You don’t have to do anything: everything is done automatically.” Free Mobile, created in 2007, launched its first packages in January 2012, and it now has 15.8 million subscribers. Free, for its part, until now managed the Internet box activities of the Iliad group.

The merger project was signed on October 20, 2026, then published in the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements (BODACC). Free absorbs Free Mobile, as well as two other Iliad subsidiaries, Free Réseau and Réseau Optique de France, which maintain the network and deploy fiber. According to the notice published in BODACC, the three companies will be dissolved without liquidation and Free will take over their rights and obligations. The merger agreement sets the date at midnight on December 1, at least 30 days after the last publication in BODACC, and Iliad must still own the three companies 100% on this date. For Iliad accounting, the merger dates back to January 1, 2026.

Free also takes over the coverage obligations set by Arcep for Free Mobile frequencies, including those in the 700 MHz and 3.4 to 3.8 GHz bands.

In its insert, Free cites the package, its price, the number and the SIM card among what remains identical. Free Flex contracts, rental with smartphone purchase option launched by the operator, are also retained. Direct debits and registered bank cards “continue to function normally”, according to Free, and there is no new RIB to provide. Free reminds in the same insert that it “will never ask you for your banking details by email or SMS”.

This merger has no direct link with the acquisition of SFR by Bouygues Telecom, Free and Orange, the protocol for which was signed in June 2026 and which must still be authorized by the Competition Authority.

Machine-translated from French