Free phone number blocks in France

Free holds 34.5 million phone numbers in France, 8.4% of the numbers ARCEP’s table of 2026-09-25 lists as allocated there, under 3 holder names; the largest, Free, holds 20 million. The carrier a phone lookup names for a number is the holder of the block the number sits in, as the regulator lists it: the original allocation, not the caller, the app or the network that serves a ported number today.

Brand	Free
Numbers held	34,457,100 (8.4% of the allocated numbers in ARCEP’s table)
Holder names	3
Ranges held	861
Table	ARCEP numbering resources, retrieved on 2026-09-25
Terms	Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab), ARCEP
Grouped by	Spaw’s carrier brand map of 2026-09-24
Region	France

The legal entities ARCEP lists

Every holder in ARCEP’s table that the brand map groups under Free, by the numbers allocated to it. Names are printed as the regulator writes them. Holdings are counted in numbers, not table rows, because rows differ in size: a range covers every nine-digit number its digits start, 10,000 for a five-digit range and 1,000 for a six-digit one.

holder	operator code	ranges	numbers
Free	FREE	679	20,020,000
Free mobile	FRMO	70	13,200,100
Free Pro	JAG	112	1,237,000

How a lookup reads these numbers

The numbering plan types these ranges itself, so a number’s line type comes from the range, not from the holder. Free’s numbers by the plan’s type:

VoIP	13,732,000	39.9%
mobile	13,200,000	38.3%
geographic (fixed line)	7,455,000	21.6%
freephone	30,000	0.1%
shared cost	20,000	0.1%
premium rate	20,000	0.1%
not typed by the plan	100	0.0%

The ranges with most of its numbers

Free’s entities hold numbers under 12 ranges of the plan, each a geographic zone (01 to 05) or a mobile or non-geographic range (06, 07, 08x, 09). The share is its part of the numbers ARCEP lists as allocated under each range.

code	place	numbers	share of the code
09	—	13,732,000	35.9%
07	—	9,700,000	21.6%
06	—	3,500,000	3.9%
04	South-east France	2,061,000	3.8%
03	North-east France	1,491,000	3.1%
02	North-west France	1,481,000	3.3%
01	Île-de-France	1,251,000	2.8%
05	South-west France	1,171,000	3.4%
080	—	30,000	1.1%
089	—	20,000	0.8%
081	—	10,000	0.5%
082	—	10,000	0.4%

Assignments by year

The ranges the table still lists under Free’s entities, by the year ARCEP dates their assignment. A block returned since is no longer in the table, so earlier years read low; 100.0% of the rows carry a date. ARCEP records one attribution date per range, and many long-held ranges share a handful of dates, so a year here is the date the table records, not always when the numbers were first allocated.

year	ranges	numbers
2026	16	150,100
2025	5	50,000
2024	23	680,000
2023	15	267,000
2021	8	620,000
2020	3	300,000
2019	1	1 million
2018	10	1 million
2016	4	1.1 million
2015	5	2.3 million
2000–2014	771	27 million

What this page cannot say

A regulator’s table records the original allocation of each block, never who serves a number today: a number ported away from Free keeps its block, and a lookup still names the block’s holder for it.
The carrier a lookup names is not the caller, the app or the subscriber. Caller ID can be spoofed, so the holder of a calling number’s block may not have carried the call at all.
Spaw does no reverse lookup and names no subscriber: nothing here says who owns or uses any number.
Shares are shares of the regulator’s own table, not of subscribers, lines in service or traffic.
The grouping under Free is Spaw’s carrier brand map of 2026-09-24: legal entities, subsidiaries and former names under the brand the network trades as today. Networks change hands, and the map is reviewed at least yearly.

Free and the other brand names on this page are trademarks of their owners, used only to name the networks the regulators’ tables list. Spaw is not affiliated with any of them.

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ARCEP numbering resources retrieved on 2026-09-25 · carrier brand map 2026-09-24 · page changed 2026-09-25

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