SFR pilots UMTS900 with Nokia
Nokia and French operator SFR said Friday they have carried out a technical pilot on UMTS 3G voice calling in the 900MHz band (UMTS900). Because of its lower frequency, UMTS900 is anticipated to...
View ArticleSFR to increase stake in Neuf Cegetel
French conglomerate Vivendi said Thursday its mobile phone subsidiary, SFR, is in talks to buy up a further stake in fixed line carrier Neuf Cegetel. SFR would buy a further 29 per cent stake in the...
View ArticleFrench connections: France country profile
French connections The French market is facing an inevitable slowdown as it reaches saturation point. According to Informa Telecoms & Media’s World Cellular Information Service, France had a...
View ArticleSFR launches femtocells in France
SFR launches femtocells in France French operator SFR became the second European carrier to commercially introduce femtocells this week, following Vodafone’s UK launch in July. The service is called...
View ArticleSFR looks to clouds for enterprise offering
SFR looks to HP cloud-based services for enterprise offering French carrier SFR has tapped HP to build it a complete cloud services platform designed to enable the service provider to offer cloud-based...
View ArticleVodafone reported to be ready to offload SFR stake
Vodafone is now looking to "maximise shareholder value" from its minority holdings A report in UK broadsheet The Sunday Times on September 12th claimed that Vodafone has placed a £7bn (US$10.78bn)...
View ArticleFrench carriers form micropayment venture
Buyster, will be available to users for fixed and mobile internet purchases in France French carriers Orange, SFR and Bouygues have joined forces with IT services firm Atos Origin to form a new joint...
View ArticleVodafone sells SFR stake to Vivendi for €7.95bn
The SFR stake is the latest of Vodafone's minority holdings to be divested International operator Vodafone has announced that it is to sell its 44 per cent stake in French carrier SFR to its partner in...
View ArticleFrench LTE spectrum auction to be launched by May
France's LTE spectrum auction is slated to begin in May French telecoms regulator ARCEP has said that the country’s LTE spectrum auction will be launched before May this year. The terms of the sale,...
View ArticleFrance allocates LTE spectrum
France's LTE spectrum auction sees the four major operators win licences French regulator Arcep has announced that all four of the country’s major operators have won licences to use its 2.6 GHz...
View ArticleArcep awards French 800MHz 4G spectrum
Bouygues, SFR and Orange all won spectrum in the 800MHz auction French regulator Arcep has said that it has awarded 4G licences in the 800Mhz band to the incumbent operators Bouygues, Orange and SFR....
View ArticleSFR appoints Vodafone Europe’s CEO
Michel Combes will join SFR as CEO in August French operator SFR has appointed Vodafone Europe’s head honcho Michel Combes as its CEO. Combes, currently CEO at Vodafone Europe and director of Vodafone...
View ArticleFree reveals extent of its disruption
Free Mobile reveals it has won 4 per cent of the French market in just 80 days French low-cost 3G operator Free has managed to acquire nearly four per cent of the country’s market share in just 80...
View ArticleCustomer data creating revenue opportunities in unlikely places
Operators' customer data can even help law enforcement agencies Customer data collected by operators presents an intriguing opportunity and some are finding unusual partners to team up with. France’s...
View ArticleOperators could build LBS case by flogging user data
Mobile operators worldwide stand to gain from an $11bn opportunity by provisioning location based data services to third parties by 2016, according to research Location based services have been on the...
View ArticleOvum view: Investors to gain more than Vodafone from Verizon sale
On September 2, 2013, Vodafone and Verizon announced that they had reached an agreement for Vodafone to sell its 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless back to Verizon for $130bn. Ovum believes that the...
View ArticleVivendi reveals plans to demerge SFR
Vivendi has revealed plans to demerge its mobile operator subsidiary SFR French group Vivendi has revealed plans to demerge its mobile operator subsidiary SFR. The group said SFR would gain greater...
View ArticleSFR deploys LTE in Paris
Vivendi subsidiary SFR has deployed LTE in Paris French operator SFR, a subsidiary of media group Vivendi, said it has become the first operator to introduce commercial LTE services in Paris. The...
View ArticleSFR teams with Napster on mobile music service
SFR has teamed up with music streaming service Napster. The mobile streaming service will be available to SFR customers on the operator’s recently launched LTE service. French operator SFR has teamed...
View ArticleVivendi confirms plans to demerge SFR
Vivendi’s board has unanimously voted to demerge its mobile operator business SFR The board of French multimedia group Vivendi has unanimously voted to demerge its mobile operator business SFR,...
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