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Orange took over the landline and Internet businesses of France Telecom and Wanadoo in 2006. Since then, Orange is the sole brand of France Telecom for landline and Internet services worldwide, with a few exceptions, such as Mobistar in Belgium and TPSA in Poland.
Bouygues Telecom S.A. (French pronunciation: [bwiɡ telekɔm]) is a French mobile phone, Internet service provider and IPTV company, part of the Bouygues group. It is the third oldest mobile network operator in France, after Orange and SFR, and before Free Mobile, and provides 2G GSM, 3G UMTS, 4G LTE and 5G NR services.
France currently has 4 mobile networks, Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free all of which are licensed for UMTS. All except Free are also licensed for GSM. In 2016 Q3, Orange had 28.966 million mobile phone customers, SFR had 14.577 million, Bouygues had 12.660 million, Free Mobile had 12.385 million, and the MVNOs had 7.281 million.
Telecommunications company; ITU-T; Landline; List of mobile network operators. List of mobile network operators of the Americas; List of mobile network operators in Asia and Oceania
The first 3G licenses were awarded to France Telecom (now Orange) in 2000, SFR in 2000 and Bouygues Telecom in 2002. Free Mobile application has been agreed by French regulatory authority ARCEP on 17 December 2009. [1] The license price is 240 million euros [2] for two 5 MHz duplex bands in the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz frequency bands.
Bouygues Construction (100% share): construction, public works, energy & services, with a presence in 80 countries worldwide; Colas Group (96.8% share): roadworks, construction, railways and maintenance; Bouygues Immobilier (100% share): residential, corporate, commercial and hotel real estate and urban development, property development ...
In June 2015 Altice acquired Portugal Telecom [11] and sold Cabovisão to Apax France [citation needed] (later Seven2). In June 2015, it was reported that Altice had offered €10 billion for Bouygues Telecom, the third largest telecoms company in France. [12] Bouygues' board refused and as of March 2016, is considering merging with Orange. [13]
The three largest French mobile network operators (Orange, Bouygues Telecom and SFR) have since 2008 been legally required by the French government and the French telecommunications regulator ARCEP to provide shared 2G GSM, 3G UMTS and 4G LTE coverage in rural dead zones (zone blanche in French) under the name "F-CONTACT" which, although made ...