Ingrid Lunden
Aug 25, 2011 7:40 AM
Here’s a significant bit of news that advances mobile operators’ master plan to become central players not just in provisioning data networks, but to have a hand in how people are using them to consume goods and services…
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Ingrid Lunden
Apr 3, 2011 6:28 PM
At last, an end to Vodafone’s French saga, and another chapter in the mobile operator’s continuing sell-off of assets that it does not control: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is selling its 44 percent stake in France’s SFR to Vivendi (EPA: VIV), its partner in the operation, for €7.75 billion (£6.8 billion;…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 4, 2011 10:47 AM
Here’s another example of France and her companies coming together to go it alone against existing international equivalents…
The three main French mobile carriers - Orange, Bouygues and SFR - are teaming with IT company Atos Origin to start a new electronic payments system dubbed Buyster.
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 14, 2008 4:12 PM
French operator SFR will launch an MTV-branded phone next week, the MTV3.3, along with limited-time and fixed-cost plans designed to appeal to the young people most likely to want the phone. The 3G slider phone includes MTV content such as videos, logos, wallpapers, original ringtones created by DJ Cut Killer…
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