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There were 61.4 million mobile subscribers in France at the end of 2009. With 1.8 million new subscribers last quarter of 2009, the annual growth of total stock amounted to 6%! This obviously does not mean that there are 61.4 million people who own a mobile as it can sometimes read, but there are 61.4 million SIM cards (or mobile lines). In reality, the total stock of active SIM cards, giving or receiving a call or sent a text message over the last three months amounted to 59.5 million. SMS continues to explode Successful interpersonal messaging (SMS and MMS) as a mode of communication continues unabated: 19.3 billion interpersonal messages were issued during the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of 65.5% over one year. The volume of SMS issued rose to 109 SMS per active customer per month. More than 3 per day. A record! MVNOs rose slightly MVNOs totaled 3.5 million customers, representing 5.93% of market share, up 10.3% over fourth quarter 2009. MVNOs continue to progress on the French market (+ 328,000 new customers in the quarter), but the incumbent operators (Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom) still retain over 94% of the market!
The mobile Internet continues to grow
The park mobile multimedia assets amounted to 23.5 million customers, representing 40.9% of the total active fleet. The growth was 12.4% on quarter and 22.8% over the previous 12 months. Number portability seduced During the fourth quarter of 2009, 550,500 mobile numbers have been ported from one operator to another is an increase of 22.4% over one year. There are thus 4,961,000 numbers since July 2003. The key 3G More than two million cards related 3G Internet / PC Card at December 31, (+ 300,000 in one quarter) and 1.5 million cards MtoM (190 000 in one quarter).
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