SFR to offer unlimited calls on cell phones from 18 Jan (France)
France’s second biggest mobile operator SFR, owned by media and telecoms company Vivendi, will offer as of January 18 unlimited calls on mobile phones as part of its new Internet box Evolution.
In this way, SFR hopes to meet the challenge of France’s newest mobile operator Free which started offering free calls for mobile phones to the users of its new Internet box Revolution.
Moreover, SFR, which has attracted 329,000 new subscribers over the first nine months of 2010, hopes to keep its place as one of the leading mobile groups in France.
Analysts and observers are eager to know whether Orange, the number one mobile operator in France, will join the challenge. The company may follow suit as calls from fixed phones to mobile phones still remain an important part of subscriptions.
Bouygues adds 334,000 users in H1, revenue up 1%
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French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom had a stable turnover, up 1 percent to EUR 2.175 billion in the first half, compared to EUR 2.144 billion in the year-earlier period. The figure excludes the effect of Bouygues Caraibes, sold in April 2006. Net network revenues were stable at EUR 2.029 billion. Excluding the fall in call termination rates, Bouygues Telecom’s turnover would have risen by 6 percent, the company said. Bouygues praised the success of its Neo plan, introduced on 1 March, and offering unlimited calls to all operators. |
| The plan helped Bouygues add 334,000 customers in the first half. The company had 8.305 million customers at the end of June, or 10 percent more than a year earlier. It said it still has the market’s largest proportion of prepaid customers, 70 percent. Bouygues Telecom sister company, the broadcaster TF1, had revenue up 8 percent to EUR 1.377 billion in the first half, compared to EUR 1.277 billion a year earlier.
Source:http://www.telecompaper.com |
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