Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

Zone Blanche

English translation:

White Zone

Added to glossary by Andre de Vries
Jul 19, 2005 13:31
18 yrs ago
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French term

Zone Blanche

French to English Tech/Engineering Telecom(munications)
Une Zone Blanche est une zone du territoire national dont la couverture GSM est partagée entre tous les opérateurs nationaux. D’un point de vue pratique la couverture apparaît comme celle d’un opérateur à part et le traitement des abonnés sous cette couverture est semblable au Roaming à l’étranger.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 White Zone
3 white area

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Jul 19, 2005:
more details? I cannot find any references to White Zone on google - maybe because they are buried in amongst 1000s of other hits - could you give some further details?

Proposed translations

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White Zone

ca existe sur Google et dans le contexte que vous exposez.

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Note added at 43 mins (2005-07-19 14:15:20 GMT)
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Reduction in costs to service provider and tariff is necessary.

To reduce the cost each service provider need not go to all rural Areas.

- Sharing of infrastructure.

- Roaming to the subscribers of other operators : White Zone

concept in France, Arrangement between Cellcom and Vodafone in Scotland.

taken from http://info.worldbank.org/ict/CITWorkshop/RSingh - USchallen...

the White Zone is apparently something typically French.

Peer comment(s):

agree Brigith Guimarães
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "many thanks"
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white area

it's an area that is sort of a free-for-all, not locked in for one operator, i.e. no exclusivity
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