Type Société anonyme Customer service 00 33 6 10 00 10 23 Revenue 2.17 billion EUR Founded February 1987 | Industry Telecommunications Headquarters Paris, France Owner Altice | |
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Area served France, Réunion, Mayotte, Belgium, Luxembourg, Guadeloupe, Martinique Key people Michel Combes (Chairman and CEO) Products Box de SFR, Home by SFR, mobile phones Services Fixed-line internet, mobile internet, fixed-line and mobile telephony, IP television Subsidiaries Numericable, Virgin Mobile France Founders Alain Bravo, Richard Lalande Profiles | ||
Sfr bid for bouygues sets alarm bells ringing in french telecoms
SFR (an orphan acronym of Société française du radiotéléphone ) is a French telecommunications company that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to consumers and businesses. As of December 2015, it has 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provides 6.35 million households with high-speed internet access. It also offers services in the Overseas Departments of France : in the Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and in Guyane as well as in the Indian Ocean, in Mayotte and on the Réunion island through SRR (Société Réunionnaise du Radiotéléphone) although the company is branded as SFR Réunion.
Contents
- Sfr bid for bouygues sets alarm bells ringing in french telecoms
- Sfr tv application bada by onycom
- History
- References
SFR is owned by Altice and French conglomerate Vivendi. Vodafone had a 44% share in SFR until April 2011 when it sold the entire share back to Vivendi. SFR is the partner network of Vodafone in France.
SFR (SFR Belux) operated in Belgium as a cable operator and MVNO in some communes of Brussels Region and in some areas of Luxembourg. The division was sold to rival Telenet in December 2016.
Sfr tv application bada by onycom
History
Vivendi announced sometime about March 2014 that it planned to sell its SFR division. On 14 March it announced that it would enter exclusive negotiations with Altice/Numericable, to the exclusion of Bouygues and Iliad. Arnaud Montebourg, the French Minister for Industrial Renewal, provoked a storm when he stated that the Numericable/SFR deal was a certainty; Iliad lost 7.5% of its market value on that day.
In February 2016 Orange, SFR and Free announced the purchase of their competitor Bouygues Telecom. However, negotiations for the purchase agreement fell through a few months later.