SFR


SFR ' is a French mobile communications company that serves millions of households in France.
As of December 2015, it has 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provides 6.35 million households with high-speed internet access.
SFR also offers services in the overseas departments of France, in the Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and in Guyane, as well as in the Indian Ocean, in Mayotte and on the Réunion island through SRR', although the company is branded as SFR Réunion''.
SFR operated in Belgium as a cable operator and MVNO in some communes of Brussels Region and in some areas of Luxembourg. The division was sold to rival Telenet in December 2016.

History

had a 44% share in SFR until April 2011, when it sold the entire share back to Vivendi. SFR is a major partner network of Vodafone in France.
Vivendi announced in March 2014 that it planned to sell its SFR division. On 14 March, Vivendi announced that it would enter exclusive negotiations with Altice/Numericable, to the exclusion of Bouygues and Iliad. Arnaud Montebourg, the French Minister for Industrial Renewal, provoked a storm when he stated that the Numericable/SFR deal was a certainty. Iliad lost 7.5% of its market value on that day.
In February 2016 Orange, SFR and Free announced the purchase of their competitor Bouygues Telecom. However, negotiations for the purchase agreement fell through a few months later.

Slogans

SFR TV is a television service accessible on La Box de SFR and La Box Fibre de SFR, which delivers television programs via the broadband internet telephone network, high-speed internet. The service was also broadcast by satellite with SFR Sat available on the Astra 19.2°E satellite until October 2015.
The SFR TV package includes more than 200 channels, some pay-tv channels can be added as an option, by subscribing to a specific paid package, classified by theme.

SFR Sport

SFR Sport is a package of French TV channels from the SFR Group devoted to sports. They are available for SFR and OTT subscribers.