| area_served = France, Réunion, [[Mayotte]], Guadeloupe, [[Martinique]]
| area_served = France, Réunion, [[Mayotte]], Guadeloupe, [[Martinique]]
| key_people = AlainWeill (Chairman and CEO)<ref>{{cite web|title=Managementteam|url=http://www.sfr.com/nous-connaitre/discover-sfr/management-team|publisher=SFR|access-date=2May2016}}</ref>
| key_people = Matthieu Cocq (CEO)<ref>{{cite web|title=Altice France CIO quits amid turmoil at group|url=https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/altice-france-cio-quits-amid-turmoil-group|publisher=Fierce Wireless|access-date=31 March 2024}}</ref>
| industry = [[Telecommunications]]
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'''SFR''' ({{IPA-fr|ɛsɛfɛʁ|lang}}; ''Société française du radiotéléphone'', {{IPA-fr|sɔsjete fʁɑ̃sɛz dy ʁadjotelefɔn|}}) is a French [[telecommunications]] company It is the second oldest [[mobile network operator]] in [[France]], after [[Orange S.A.|Orange]] and the second largest [[telecommunications]] company in [[France]], behind [[Orange S.A.|Orange]].
'''SFR''' ({{IPA|fr|ɛsɛfɛʁ|lang}}; {{lang-fr|Société française du radiotéléphone|label=in full}} {{IPA|fr|sɔsjete fʁɑ̃sɛːz dy ʁadjotelefɔn|}}) is a French [[telecommunications]] company. It is both the second oldest [[mobile network operator]] and the second largest [[telecommunications]] company in [[France]], after [[Orange S.A.|Orange]].
As of December 2015, it had 21.9 million customers in [[Metropolitan France]] for mobile services and provided 6.35 million households with high-speed internet access.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nextinpact.com/news/99052-numericable-sfr-regagne-enfin-clients-sur-marche-mobile.htm | title= Numericable-SFR regagne enfin des clients sur le marché mobile}} Nextimpact.com, 15 March 2016</ref>
As of December 2015, SFR had 21.9 million customers in [[Metropolitan France]] for mobile services and it provided 6.35 million households with high-speed internet access.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nextinpact.com/news/99052-numericable-sfr-regagne-enfin-clients-sur-marche-mobile.htm | title= Numericable-SFR regagne enfin des clients sur le marché mobile| date= 15 March 2016}} Nextimpact.com, 15 March 2016</ref>
SFR also offers services in the overseas departments of [[France]], in the [[Caribbean Islands|Caribbean islands]] of [[Martinique]], [[Guadeloupe]], and in [[Guyane]] through '''SFR Caraïbe''', as well as in the [[Indian Ocean]], in [[Mayotte]] and the [[Réunion]] islands through '''SRR''' (''Société Réunionnaise du Radiotéléphone''), although the companyis branded as ''SFR Réunion''.
SFR also offers services in the overseas departments of [[France]], in the [[Caribbean Islands|Caribbean islands]] of [[Martinique]], [[Guadeloupe]], and in [[Guyane]] through '''SFR Caraïbe''', and in the [[Indian Ocean]], in [[Mayotte]] and the [[Réunion]] islands through '''SRR''' ('''Société Réunionnaise du Radiotéléphone'''; also branded as '''SFR Réunion''').
SFR (SFR Belux) 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 (Belgium)|Telenet]] (owned by [[Liberty Global]]) in December 2016.
'''SFR Belux''' operated in [[Belgium]] as a cable operator and MVNO in some communes of [[Brussels Region]], and in some areas of [[Luxembourg]] (as '''SFR Luxembourg'''). The division was sold to rival [[Telenet (Belgium)|Telenet]] (owned by [[Liberty Global]]) in December 2016.
==History==
==History==
SFR was founded as a company in 1987 in order for its parent company ''[[Vivendi|Compagnie Générale des Eaux]]'' (CGE) to start offering a [[1G]] mobile phone service using the modified Nordic telecommunications standard [[Nordic Mobile Telephone|NMT-F]], to be operated in competition with the then-telephony incumbent [[France Télécom]]'s [[Radiocom 2000]] <small>([[:fr:Radiocom 2000|fr]])</small> network. SFR also became the second French mobile network operator (after France Télécom) to launch [[2G]] [[GSM]] services, which it did on 15 November 1992.
SFR was founded in 1987 in order for its then-parent company ''[[Vivendi|Compagnie Générale des Eaux]]'' (CGE) to start offering a [[1G]] mobile phone service using the modified Nordic telecommunications standard [[Nordic Mobile Telephone|NMT-F]], to be operated in competition with the then-telephony incumbent [[France Télécom]]'s {{ill|Radiocom 2000|fr}} network. SFR also became the second French mobile network operator (after [[France Télécom]]) to launch [[2G]] [[GSM]] services, which it did on 15 November 1992.
In 1996, CGE spun off SFR and all its other telecommunications activities into a new holding company called SFR-Cegetel (later just {{ill|Cegetel|fr}}), which also became a competing provider of fixed-line telecommunication services, as well as a major [[Internet service provider|ISP]] and a shareholder of the French operations of [[AOL|America Online]] (AOL), as part of AOL's European operations which AOL of the United States ran as a joint venture with the German conglomerate [[Bertelsmann]].
[[Vodafone]] had a 44% share in SFR until April 2011, when it sold its entire share back to SFR's founder parent company [[Vivendi]]. SFR is a major partner network of Vodafone in France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/media/vodafone-group-releases/2014/vodafone-sfr.html |title=Vodafone and SFR strengthen strategic global alliance}} Vodafone.com, 7 May 2014</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-05/vivendi-agrees-to-sell-sfr-to-altice-in-23-billion-deal.html |title=Vivendi Selling SFR to Altice in $23 Billion Deal, Hard-Fought Win for Drahi|website=[[Bloomberg News]]}} bloomberg.com, 7 April 2014</ref>
[[Vodafone]] had a 44% share in SFR until April 2011, when it sold its entire share back to SFR's founding parent company [[Vivendi]]. SFR is a major partner network of Vodafone in France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/media/vodafone-group-releases/2014/vodafone-sfr.html |title=Vodafone and SFR strengthen strategic global alliance}} Vodafone.com, 7 May 2014</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-05/vivendi-agrees-to-sell-sfr-to-altice-in-23-billion-deal.html |title=Vivendi Selling SFR to Altice in $23 Billion Deal, Hard-Fought Win for Drahi|website=[[Bloomberg News]]|date=7 April 2014 }} bloomberg.com, 7 April 2014</ref>
Vivendi announced in March 2014 that it planned to sell its SFR division.<ref name=nsfr>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/rachat-de-sfr-vivendi-choisit-numericable-14-03-2014-1801197_47.php|title=Numericable-SFR : "l'avenir commence aujourd'hui"|first=Guerric|last=Poncet|date=14 March 2014|website=Le Point}}</ref> On 14 March, Vivendi announced that it would enter exclusive negotiations with Altice/[[Numericable]], to the exclusion of [[Bouygues]] and [[Free (ISP)|Iliad]].<ref name=nsfr/> [[Arnaud Montebourg]], the French Minister for Industrial Renewal, provokedastorm when he stated that the Numericable/SFR deal was a certainty. [[Iliad SA|Iliad]] lost 7.5% of its market value on that day.<ref name=nsfr/>
Vivendi announced in March 2014 that it planned to sell its SFR division.<ref name=nsfr>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/rachat-de-sfr-vivendi-choisit-numericable-14-03-2014-1801197_47.php|title=Numericable-SFR : "l'avenir commence aujourd'hui"|first=Guerric|last=Poncet|date=14 March 2014|website=Le Point}}</ref> On 14 March, it announced that it would enter exclusive negotiations with [[Altice (company)|Altice]]/[[Numericable]], to the exclusion of [[Bouygues]] and [[Free (ISP)|Iliad]].<ref name=nsfr/> [[Arnaud Montebourg]], the French Minister for Industrial Renewal, triggered considerable concern when he stated that the Numericable/SFR deal was a certainty. [[Iliad SA|Iliad]] lost 7.5% of its market value on that day.<ref name=nsfr/>
SFR having 28.6 million subscribers versus 1,7 million for Numericable and much more notoriety, [[Patrick Drahi]] announced that SFR will replace [[Numericable]]. In late 2015, Numericable Outremer became SFR Caraïbe. On 15 February 2016, Numericable was rebranded as SFR in Belgium and Luxembourg, with the launch of new packages and the SVOD service Zive.
SFR having 28.6 million subscribers versus 1.7 million for [[Numericable]] and much more notoriety, [[Patrick Drahi]] announced that SFR will replace [[Numericable]]. In late 2015, Numericable Outremer became SFR Caraïbe. On 15 February 2016, Numericable was rebranded as SFR in Belgium and Luxembourg, with the launch of new packages and the SVOD service Zive.
In February 2016 [[Orange S.A.|Orange]], SFR and [[Free Telecom|Free]] announced the purchase of their competitor [[Bouygues Telecom]]. However, negotiations for the purchase agreement fell through a few months later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.europe1.fr/economie/echec-des-negociations-pour-la-vente-de-bouygues-telecom-a-orange-2708965|title=Échec des négociations pour la vente de Bouygues Telecom à Orange|website=Europe 1}}</ref>
In February 2016, [[Orange S.A.|Orange]], SFR and [[Free Telecom|Free]] announced the purchase of their competitor [[Bouygues Telecom]]. However, negotiations for the purchase agreement fell through a few months later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.europe1.fr/economie/echec-des-negociations-pour-la-vente-de-bouygues-telecom-a-orange-2708965|title=Échec des négociations pour la vente de Bouygues Telecom à Orange|website=Europe 1|date=April 2016 }}</ref>
In December 2016, Altice sold SFR Belux to [[Telenet (Belgium)|Telenet]].<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Kevin Hottot|title=Altice vend ses activités télécoms en Belgique et au Luxembourg pour 400 millions d'euros|url=https://www.nextinpact.com/news/102609-altice-vend-ses-activites-telecoms-en-belgique-et-au-luxembourg-pour-400-millions-deuros.htm|pages=}} Next Inpact, 22 December 2016</ref> SFR was merged in Belgium with Telenet on 31 March 2019 ; and SFR Luxembourg merged with Eltrona on 1 April 2020.
In December 2016, Altice sold SFR Belux to [[Telenet (Belgium)|Telenet]].<ref>{{cite web|language=fr|author=Kevin Hottot|title=Altice vend ses activités télécoms en Belgique et au Luxembourg pour 400 millions d'euros|date=22 December 2016 |url=https://www.nextinpact.com/news/102609-altice-vend-ses-activites-telecoms-en-belgique-et-au-luxembourg-pour-400-millions-deuros.htm|pages=}} Next Inpact, 22 December 2016</ref> SFR was merged in [[Belgium]] with [[Telenet]] on 31 March 2019, and SFR Luxembourg merged with Eltrona on 1 April 2020.
==Slogans==
==Slogans==
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*[[File:SFR-2014-logo.svg|thumb|237x237px|Former logo of SFR from 2014 to 2022.]]2022: "Soyez vous" (Translation : "Be you")
*[[File:SFR-2014-logo.svg|thumb|237x237px|Former 3D logo of SFR from 2014 to 18 October 2022.]]2022: "Soyez vous" (Translation : "Be you")
*1987-1990: "Parce qu’un abonné SFR n’est pas qu’un simple numéro"
*1987–1990: "Parce qu’un abonné SFR n’est pas qu’un simple numéro"
*1990-1994: "Ligne SFR, Le téléphone liberté"
*1990–1994: "Ligne SFR, Le téléphone liberté"
*1994-1996: "SFR, Le monde sans fil est à vous"
*1994–1996: "SFR, Le monde sans fil est à vous"
*1996-1999: "Sans fil SFR, le monde est à vous"
*1996–1999: "Sans fil SFR, le monde est à vous"
*1999-2000: "Vous n'avez pas fini d'être LIBRE"
*1999–2000: "Vous n'avez pas fini d'être LIBRE"
*2000-2001: "SFR, le meilleur réseau"
*2000–2001: "SFR, le meilleur réseau"
*2001-2003: "Vous serez toujours plus qu’un simple numéro"
*2001–2003: "Vous serez toujours plus qu’un simple numéro"
*2003-2005: "Plus de plaisir"
*2003–2004: "Plus de plaisir"
*2005-2007: "Parlons mieux, parlons mobile"
*2004–2007: "Parlons mieux, parlons mobile"
*2007-2008: "Vivons mobile"
*2007–2008: "Vivons mobile"
*2008-2010: "SFR, et le monde est à vous"
*2008–2010: "SFR, et le monde est à vous"
*2010-2014: "Carrément vous"
*2010–2014: "Carrément vous"
*2014-2015: "Smart comme vous"
*2014–2015: "Smart comme vous"
*2015-2016: "SFR, et tout s'accélère"
*2015–2016: "SFR, et tout s'accélère"
*2016-2017: "#NewSFR"
*2016–2017: "#NewSFR"
*2017: "Pour vous, SFR change"
*2017: "Pour vous, SFR change"
*2017-2018: "SFR, en chemin vers le meilleur"
*2017–2018: "SFR, en chemin vers le meilleur"
*2018: "SFR, enjoy"
*2018: "SFR, enjoy"
==SFR TV==
==SFR TV==
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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 ([[xDSL]]), high-speed internet ([[FTTH]] or [[FTTB]] fiber within [[Numericable]]). The service was also broadcast by satellite with ''SFR Sat'' available on the [[Astra 19.2°E]] satellite until October 2015.
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 ([[xDSL]]), high-speed internet ([[FTTH]] or [[FTTB]] fiber within [[Numericable]]). The service was also broadcast by satellite with ''SFR Sat'' available on the [[Astra 19.2°E]] satellite until October 2015.
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On 17 November 2015, Numericable-SFR launched its SVOD service Zive, for the Power bouquet subscribers. Zive and Power packages became SFR Play in 2016.
On 17 November 2015, Numericable-SFR launched its SVOD service Zive, for the Power bouquet subscribers. Zive and Power packages became SFR Play in 2016.
Altice signed an exclusive agreement with Discovery and [[NBCUniversal International Networks|NBCUniversal]] in December 2016. The premium movies and series TV channel [[Altice Studio]] was launched on 22 August 2017.
Altice signed an exclusive agreement with [[Discovery, Inc.|Discovery]] and [[NBCUniversal International Networks|NBCUniversal]] in December 2016. The premium movies and series TV channel [[Altice Studio]] was launched on 22 August 2017.
The Numericable and SFR channels numbering were merged on 22 August 2017, and in 2019, the Numericable exclusive channels ([[MTV (French TV channel)|MTV]], [[Nickelodeon (France)|Nickelodeon]], [[J-One]], Série Club, [[Cartoon Network (France)|Cartoon Network]]...) were added to SFR ADSL offer. The brand Numericable disappeared.
The Numericable and SFR channels numbering were merged on 22 August 2017, and in 2019, the Numericable exclusive channels ([[MTV (French TV channel)|MTV]], [[Nickelodeon (France)|Nickelodeon]], [[J-One]], Série Club, [[Cartoon Network (France)|Cartoon Network]]...) were added to SFR ADSL offer. The brand Numericable disappeared.
==SFR Sport==
==SFR Sport==
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RMC Sport (formerly SFR Sport) is a package of French TV channels ([[RMC Sport 1]], [[RMC Sport 2]], [[RMC Sport 3]], [[RMC Sport 4]], RMC Sport 1UHD) from the SFR Group devoted to sports. They are available for SFR, [[Canal+ (TV provider)|Canal+]], [[Mauritius Telecom|My.T]] and [[Over-the-top content|OTT]] subscribers.
'''RMC Sport''' (formerly SFR Sport) is a package of French TV channels (RMC Sport 1, RMC Sport 2, RMC Sport 3, RMC Sport 4, RMC Sport 1UHD) from the SFR Group devoted to sports. They are available for SFR, [[Canal+ (TV provider)|Canal+]], [[Mauritius Telecom|My.T]] and [[Over-the-top content|OTT]] subscribers.
In 2016, Altice acquired the rights of many sports competitions ([[Premier League]], [[Liga NOS]], [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]]) to form its SFR Sport bouquet. MCS, MCS Extrême and Kombat Sport were rebranded as SFR Sport 2, SFR Sport 3 and SFR Sport 5 ; and SFR Sport 1 and 4K were launched. The SFR Sport bouquet became RMC Sport on 3 July 2018.
In 2016, Altice acquired the rights of many sports competitions ([[Premier League]], [[Liga NOS]], [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]]) to form its SFR Sport bouquet. MCS, MCS Extrême and Kombat Sport were rebranded as SFR Sport 2, SFR Sport 3 and SFR Sport 5 ; and SFR Sport 1 and 4K were launched. The SFR Sport bouquet became RMC Sport on 3 July 2018.
==RED by SFR==
{{ill|RED by SFR|fr}} was launched on 11 October 2011 as SFR's online-only, lower cost [[flanker brand]], in preparation for the launch of [[Free Mobile]] the following year.
As of December 2015, SFR had 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services and it provided 6.35 million households with high-speed internet access.[3]
SFR Belux operated in Belgium as a cable operator and MVNO in some communes of Brussels Region, and in some areas of Luxembourg (as SFR Luxembourg). The division was sold to rival Telenet (owned by Liberty Global) in December 2016.
History
SFR was founded in 1987 in order for its then-parent company Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE) to start offering a 1G mobile phone service using the modified Nordic telecommunications standard NMT-F, to be operated in competition with the then-telephony incumbent France Télécom's Radiocom 2000 network. SFR also became the second French mobile network operator (after France Télécom) to launch 2GGSM services, which it did on 15 November 1992.
In 1996, CGE spun off SFR and all its other telecommunications activities into a new holding company called SFR-Cegetel (later just Cegetel [fr]), which also became a competing provider of fixed-line telecommunication services, as well as a major ISP and a shareholder of the French operations of America Online (AOL), as part of AOL's European operations which AOL of the United States ran as a joint venture with the German conglomerate Bertelsmann.
Vodafone had a 44% share in SFR until April 2011, when it sold its entire share back to SFR's founding parent company Vivendi. SFR is a major partner network of Vodafone in France.[4][5]
Vivendi announced in March 2014 that it planned to sell its SFR division.[6] On 14 March, it announced that it would enter exclusive negotiations with Altice/Numericable, to the exclusion of Bouygues and Iliad.[6]Arnaud Montebourg, the French Minister for Industrial Renewal, triggered considerable concern when he stated that the Numericable/SFR deal was a certainty. Iliad lost 7.5% of its market value on that day.[6]
SFR having 28.6 million subscribers versus 1.7 million for Numericable and much more notoriety, Patrick Drahi announced that SFR will replace Numericable. In late 2015, Numericable Outremer became SFR Caraïbe. On 15 February 2016, Numericable was rebranded as SFR in Belgium and Luxembourg, with the launch of new packages and the SVOD service Zive.
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.[7]
In December 2016, Altice sold SFR Belux to Telenet.[8] SFR was merged in Belgium with Telenet on 31 March 2019, and SFR Luxembourg merged with Eltrona on 1 April 2020.
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 (xDSL), high-speed internet (FTTH or FTTB fiber within Numericable). 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 (sport, youth, music, international ...).
On 17 November 2015, Numericable-SFR launched its SVOD service Zive, for the Power bouquet subscribers. Zive and Power packages became SFR Play in 2016.
Altice signed an exclusive agreement with Discovery and NBCUniversal in December 2016. The premium movies and series TV channel Altice Studio was launched on 22 August 2017.
The Numericable and SFR channels numbering were merged on 22 August 2017, and in 2019, the Numericable exclusive channels (MTV, Nickelodeon, J-One, Série Club, Cartoon Network...) were added to SFR ADSL offer. The brand Numericable disappeared.
RMC Sport (formerly SFR Sport) is a package of French TV channels (RMC Sport 1, RMC Sport 2, RMC Sport 3, RMC Sport 4, RMC Sport 1UHD) from the SFR Group devoted to sports. They are available for SFR, Canal+, My.T and OTT subscribers.
In 2016, Altice acquired the rights of many sports competitions (Premier League, Liga NOS, Champions League) to form its SFR Sport bouquet. MCS, MCS Extrême and Kombat Sport were rebranded as SFR Sport 2, SFR Sport 3 and SFR Sport 5 ; and SFR Sport 1 and 4K were launched. The SFR Sport bouquet became RMC Sport on 3 July 2018.
RED by SFR
RED by SFR [fr] was launched on 11 October 2011 as SFR's online-only, lower cost flanker brand, in preparation for the launch of Free Mobile the following year.
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