the Poste wants to become MVNO in 2011

The Post Office is considering launching a mobile telephony offer under its own brand by becoming a virtual mobile operator within one year. Future MVNO benefit from entering a network of 17 000 points home.
Faced with falling activity in its historical business of mail, the Post wants to diversify its offerings, and it could go through a mobile telephony offer under its own brand! In any case revealed to the daily Les Echos.
Already a reseller of prepaid phone cards (including activity generated 120 million euros turnover in 2009), the utility would project to become virtual mobile operator in the first half of 2011. The file is placed on the agenda of the next Board of Directors and the Group intends to find a partner by September (Orange, SFR, and Bouygues Telecom).
The stated objective is to gain 1.5 to 2 million customers in four years in the MVNO market is slow to take off.