SFR

This article is about the French mobile phone company. For other uses, see SFR (disambiguation).

SFR

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Company type	Société anonyme
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	February 1987
Headquarters	Paris , France
Key people	Frank Esser (CEO)
Revenue	€12,577 M€
Number of employees	10,000
Parent	Vivendi (100%)
Subsidiaries	Neuf Cegetel
Website	www.sfr.fr

SFR (an orphan acronym of Société Française de Radiotéléphonie) is a French mobile phone company. It has over 20 million customers, and provides over 4.6 million households with high-speed internet access. It also offers services on the island of Réunion through SRR (Société Réunionnaise du Radiotéléphone) although the company is branded as SFR Réunion.

SFR is currently 100% owned by the French group Vivendi. The SFR mobile phone network infrastructure was built by the mobile phone giant Vodafone, who previously had a 44% share in SFR until April 2011 when it sold the entire share back to Vivendi.

In 2006, along with Bouygues Télécom and Orange SA, SFR was ordered to pay €535 million in fines for the formation of an illegal cartel (see Le Canard enchaîné). SFR, which owns 40.5 percent of Neuf Cegetel, offered to buy the rest of the first fixed alternate operator in 2007 for €4.5 billion. The goal was to challenge France Telecom in the market for combined fixed-line, internet, and cellphone services, and to create "the biggest, strongest non-incumbent in Europe", according to the group's statement.

See also

• Communications in France

External links

• Official website
• SFR Pages Blanches
• SFR Jeunes Talents - SFR's initiative to help promote and discover new talents on mobile and web