# Launching dedicated 4G proxies in France
Source: https://proxuno.com/blog/launching-dedicated-4g-proxies-in-france
Updated: 2021-03-15

> Our first fleet is live on Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile — one physical modem per proxy, HTTP and SOCKS5, rotation on demand and payment in crypto.

Today we are opening the first {{brand}} fleet: dedicated 4G mobile proxies in France, on all four national networks — Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile. This post explains what "dedicated" means for us, how the hardware is set up, and what you can expect from the service on day one.

## Why another mobile proxy service

We started this project as customers. We were buying mobile proxies for our own data collection work and kept running into the same problems:

- **Shared modems sold as dedicated.** Several customers routed through the same modem, so a rotation triggered by someone else could kill your session mid-request.
- **Unknown carriers.** The IP was "French mobile", but nobody could tell us which network, and some addresses turned out to be fixed-line ranges.
- **Rotation that silently failed.** The API answered "OK" and the IP stayed the same.

So we built the service we wanted to buy. Every proxy you order from us is bound to exactly one modem with one SIM card on a named carrier. Nobody else sends traffic through it for the duration of your plan.

## How the fleet is built

Each proxy is a physical USB/M.2 4G modem with its own SIM, mounted in a rack in a data centre in France. Racks are powered from redundant feeds and every modem port can be power-cycled remotely. A small gateway server in each rack terminates your HTTP and SOCKS5 connections and forwards them through the modem assigned to you.

When you rotate the IP, we do not just reconnect the proxy software — we ask the modem to detach from the mobile network and attach again. The carrier then hands the modem a new address from its pool. On French networks this usually takes between 5 and 15 seconds, depending on the carrier and the cell load.

Because the address comes from the carrier, it is a genuine mobile IP. Like every mobile address in Europe today, it sits behind carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT), which means thousands of real phone users share the same public IPs throughout the day. We will write about why that matters for IP reputation in a separate article.

### What you get with each proxy

| Feature | At launch |
|---|---|
| Protocols | HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 on separate ports |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited, no per-GB billing |
| Authentication | Username and password |
| Rotation | Manual, from the dashboard |
| Carriers | Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile |
| Plan | 30 days |

Credentials follow a single format everywhere — `host:port:user:pass` — so you can paste them straight into a scraper, a browser profile or an antidetect tool.

## Choosing a carrier

All four French networks give you real mobile IPs, but they behave slightly differently:

- **Orange** has the largest subscriber base and the most varied IP pool; it is a safe default for most targets.
- **SFR** and **Bouygues Telecom** have broad national coverage and are good choices if you want to spread a fleet across networks.
- **Free Mobile** is popular with younger and price-conscious users, which some ad-verification customers find useful for audience checks.

If you are unsure, spread your proxies across two or three carriers. If one network has a local incident, the others keep working.

## Paying in crypto

**Current payment update — 3 October 2026.** The checkout now creates balance top-ups for the [supported currencies and networks](/crypto-proxies). Send to the receiving wallet shown on your invoice and send the order reference and transaction ID to support. An administrator verifies the transfer after network confirmation before crediting your balance. You then confirm the proxy purchase from that funded balance.

We chose crypto-only payment deliberately. It works the same way for customers in every country, it removes card chargebacks from the equation, and it means the only personal data we need to run your account is an email address.

## What is not there yet

We prefer to launch small and say so clearly. On day one:

- There is **no public API** yet; rotation is done from the dashboard. An API is the next major item on our list.
- Plans are **30 days only**. Shorter plans will follow once we have a better picture of how the fleet is used.
- The fleet is **France only**. We will add countries one at a time, when we have racks, SIM contracts and spare modems in place — not before.

## Getting started

1. Create an account with your email address.
2. Choose the number of proxies and a carrier (or "any").
3. Pay the invoice in BTC, ETH or USDT.
4. Copy the credentials from the dashboard and test with a simple request:

```bash
curl -x http://USER:PASS@fr.mobile.{{gatewayDomain}}:PORT https://api.ipify.org
```

The [quick-start guide](/docs/quick-start) walks through the same steps with screenshots, and the [mobile proxies documentation](/docs/mobile-proxies) covers ports, protocols and rotation in detail.

If something does not work as described, write to support. The people who answer are the same people who installed the racks.