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Free TV: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Free TV is the television service of the French operator Free, a brand of the Iliad group. It replaces the OQEE app, which was renamed Free TV on 21 October 2025 and is open to people who are not Free customers. An account is required to use the service. The service runs as a mobile app, on the web at tv.free.fr, on connected televisions and on Freebox set-top boxes.

Free is part of the French Iliad group. The group is under French control, and no non-European majority shareholder has been identified. Users must create an account and accept cookies, so organisations can consult the operator's privacy notice to see where account and viewing data is stored. For a European organisation, this is a French television offer based in the EU.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026

Headquarters	FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Video Streaming
Type	Product
Website	tv.free.fr ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Free TV

The European alternatives to Free TV come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Free TV

Free TV is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Free TV scores best on data residency.

Free TV is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Free TV together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Free TV?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Free TV include 3Cat, Accedo and ADN. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Free TV?

Our list of EU alternatives to Free TV is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Free TV GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Free TV is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Free TV an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 12, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Video Streaming

Video Streaming: Video streaming services — movies, series, live TV. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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