SPM Telecom

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SPM Telecom S.A.S.
SPM Telecom, SPMT or SPM Ameris (and France Télécom)
Company type Private ( Société par actions simplifiée )
Industry Telecommunications
Founded1999;26 years ago (1999)
FounderCharles Landry
Headquarters Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, France
Area served
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Key people
Xavier Bowring (CEO)
Owner Orange S.A. (70%)
Landry S.A.S. (30%)
Parent Orange Group
Website https://www.spmtelecom.com/

SPM Telecom is a Internet service cable provider and a mobile phone operator in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon in North America. Created on September 30, 1999, [1] it covers the territory of the archipelago off Newfoundland in 2G and 4G. It has one store in Saint-Pierre and a second in Miquelon-Langlade. Its Internet network is based on a submarine cable between Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) and Lamaline (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), then on radio frequencies to a tower at Cap-à-l'Aigle on Saint Pierre Island. [2]

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It is 70% owned by the French multinational Orange S.A., through its subsidiary Orange Caraïbe, and 30% by the local Landry family group. [3]

History

On June 23, 1982, the first automatic telephone links were established between Saint-Pierre and mainland France, as well as several European countries. [4]

In 2002, France Télécom, via its local subsidiary SPM Telecom, launched the “cheznoo.net” portal, featuring local events, classified ads and live webcams from the archipelago. Over the years, it has become an emblematic Saint Pierre and Miquelon website. [5] That year, SPM Telecom had more than 2,200 subscribers to its mobile telephony services, while its Canadian competitor NewTel, now Bell Aliant, had only around one hundred. [6]

In October 2014, Orange Group and SPM Telecom lost their cell phone monopoly in Saint Pierre and Miquelon with the arrival of local competitor Globaltel. [7]

Mobile coverage

SPM Telecom offers 2G and 4G coverage and does not offer 5G in all the territories it covers. [8] According to the "Schéma directeur territorial d'aménagement numérique" (SDTAM) published in 2021, the operator does not appear to be transmitting information on its 2G and 4G coverage to Arcep, like its competitor Globaltel. [9]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "SPMT SAS SPM TELECOM : Chiffre d'affaires, statuts, extrait d'immatriculation". www.pappers.fr (in French). Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Comment l'archipel de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon est-il relié au réseau internet mondial ?". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). 2022-03-16. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  3. ↑ Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Commission européenne (14 December 2021). "Schéma directeur territorial d'aménagement numérique de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | Volet infrastructures numériques (SDTAN)" (PDF). jo-spm.fr (in French). Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Jean Godi. "Histoire du téléphone". jean.godi.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "Le site cheznoo.net proposé dans une nouvelle version". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  6. ↑ Dupuy, Gabriel (2005). "Réseaux et frontière: le résistible développement des NTIC à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon". Annales de géographie (in French). 645 (5): 531–549. doi:10.3917/ag.645.0531. ISSN   0003-4010 . Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  7. ↑ "Arrivée de la concurrence sur le marché de la téléphonie mobile". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). 2014-10-31. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  8. ↑ "Offres Mobile". www.spmtelecom.com (in French). Retrieved 2025-01-13.
  9. ↑ Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Commission européenne (14 December 2021). "Schéma directeur territorial d'aménagement numérique de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | Volet infrastructures numériques (SDTAN)" (PDF). jo-spm.fr (in French). Retrieved 29 January 2025.

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