France

The Bouygues Télécom is a French mobile phone company, part of the Bouygues group. In 2005 along with SFR and Orange SA, Bouygues Télécom was found by the Conseil de la Concurrence (the French competition body) to have acted against the best interests of consumers and the economy by sharing confidential information between 1997 and 2003. The 3 companies were collectively fined 535 million Euros in total. In November 2007 Bouygues Télécom went to court seeking cancellation of this decision.

SFR is a French mobile phone company. It has 17 million clients, including (as of January 2007) over 2 million using 3G (specifically UMTS) technology.

Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. Orange also belongs to the FreeMove mobile phone alliance. Orange is now the unique commercial façade of almost all France Télécom services.