SFR (company)

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SFR

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legal form Corporation
founding February 1987
Seat Paris , France
management Stéphane Roussel
Number of employees 32,500 (2019) (Altice France)
sales 10.8 billion euros (2019) (Altice France)
Branch telecommunications
Website www.sfr.fr

SFR (for Société française de radiotéléphonie ) based in Paris is historically the second mobile operator in France after Orange . SFR operates as one of four providers in France a GSM / GPRS - as well as UMTS / HSDPA - and 4G standard cellular network; it also has broadband internet access . SFR is part of the Altice Europe group.

background

SFR was founded in 1987 by a consortium led by the Compagnie Générale des Eaux (later called Vivendi ) as a private competitor to the then state-owned company France Telecom (now Orange ); from 1992 the second French GSM network was operated. In July 2008, SFR completely took over Neuf Cegetel , up to then the second largest fixed line operator in France. The business has been continued under the brand name SFR since April 2009 .

SFR had been a 100% subsidiary of Vivendi since June 2011 , previously Vodafone had a 44% stake. After Vivendi announced its intention to float or sell SFR, a bidding competition to acquire SFR with competing offers from French competitors Numericable and Bouygues Telecom took place in spring 2014 . At the beginning of April 2014 Vivendi decided to give Numericable the contract for a total price of 17 billion euros; Numericable is part of the Altice Europe group of French-Israeli entrepreneur Patrick Drahi . After the takeover by Altice, Numericable initially adopted the name SFR Group, later Altice France.

Customer numbers

For a long time SFR was the second largest provider in the French market after customers; After Iliad entered the market in 2012 with its mobile phone brand Free and an aggressive pricing policy, SFR increasingly lost market share and its position as a second provider. In 2019, SFR was once again the second largest mobile operator in France after Orange (20 million) with 14.4 million customers, closely followed by Free with 13.3 million customers and Bouygues Telecom with 11.5 million; in the fixed line market (broadband via fiber optics) there were SFR 2.84 million subscribers.

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  • original logo (until October 2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neuf Cegetel disappears. Retrieved January 14, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Vivendi takes over the SFR share from Vodafone. Retrieved April 4, 2011 .
  3. ↑ SFR shareholders. Retrieved January 14, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Numericable gains SFR. What now for Bouygues? In: The Economist. April 6, 2014, accessed April 10, 2014 .

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