French mobile prices are climbing fast. The average monthly price of a mobile plan with unlimited calls and at least 20 GB of data rose 7.4% in one month to 14.51 euros, and subscribers now pay about 4.70 euros more than they did in June 2025.
A memorandum of understanding for the acquisition of SFR was just signed, but the pricing moves are already visible. Free Mobile raised the price of its Série Free plan twice in a few weeks, from 9.99 euros to 10.99 euros and then to 12.99 euros per month, while also increasing the data allowance from 130 GB to 140 GB and then to 160 GB.
Price points across the French market
French mobile users consume a little less than 20 GB of data per month on average. That makes the latest price rises easier to see in the cheapest 20 GB plans: Sosh is at 10.41 euros, RED by SFR at 12.41 euros, Bouygues Telecom at 13.03 euros, and Free and SFR at 16.41 euros, while Orange sits at 18.41 euros.
Free Mobile has not recruited new subscribers for several months. That matters because the operator is no longer behaving like the market’s price disruptor, even as its entry-level package gets more generous on data.
Gigabyte pricing has reset higher
Edcom says the price per gigabyte reached 0.29 euros, a record for the period, after running around 0.12 to 0.13 euros in the first three months of the year. Orange’s price per gigabyte was 0.49 euros, Bouygues Telecom’s 0.34 euros, SFR’s about 0.18 euros, and Free Mobile’s 0.08 euros.
Ariase said the tariff increases are spreading to operators’ alternative brands. Cdiscount Mobile and Prixtel are mobile virtual network operators owned respectively by Bouygues Telecom and SFR.
What this means for mobile plan buyers
The cheapest 20 GB offers no longer cluster around a single low-price outlier. Sosh, RED by SFR, Bouygues Telecom, Free and SFR now span a much wider band than they did earlier in the year, and the floor is still moving.
Edcom said Free Mobile remained the only operator not following the upward pricing trend and had become the new low-price reference.