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As of 31 December 2010, Orange has 150 million mobile customers worldwide, 17.9% of whom are in France. Orange France is the leading mobile telecommunications operator in France, with a market share of 45.38% as of 2 November 2009. [57]
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.
In November 2013, Orange announced it was selling Orange Dominicana to Altice for $1.4 billion. In March 2014, it acquired SFR, France's second-largest mobile phone and Internet services company, from Vivendi. In November 2014, France's competition watchdog approved a deal for Numericable to acquire Virgin Mobile France for €325 million.
As the end of March 2022 Ireland had 8.117 million mobile subscribers in total, representing a 158.4% penetration rate. If mobile broadband and M2M subscriptions are excluded, the total number of mobile subscribers was 5.414 million, representing a 105.6% penetration rate. [71]
The company provides cable broadband services in France, Luxembourg and Portugal, offering digital and analog television, Internet, and phone services to homes. From 2008, Numericable also offered mobile telephone services to its customers. [3] It was the leading cable television provider and internet access provider in metropolitan France.
Free Mobile reached 5,205,000 customers, an 8% market share, in its first year [23] (compared to 27.0 million mobile customers for Orange, 20.7 million for SFR and 11.3 million for Bouygues Télécom). [24] Free Mobile currently holds a 19% market share. Its long-term goal is a 25% market share.
SFR (French:; in full: Société française du radiotéléphone [sɔsjete fʁɑ̃sɛːz dy ʁadjotelefɔn]) is a French telecommunications company. It is both the second-oldest mobile network operator and the second largest telecommunications company in France, after Orange.
Orange Business was founded on 1 June 2006, [5] through a rebranding and consolidation of the existing France Telecom businesses of Equant and Wanadoo. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Orange Business also acquired giants like Business & Decision and Basefarm in recent years who specializes in Analytics, Data Science, Cloud etc.