Provence Mobile Valley

Key figures

The French mobile’s market:

- 61.49 million mobile phone lines allocated
- Penetration rate of 92%
- Mobile phone industry turnover estimated at € 4.7 bn
- Market shared by 3 main operators : Orange (46%), SFR (36%), Bouygues (18%) and FREE, the new challenger since January 2012
- Orange is one of the top 3 European service providers and SFR is a partnership with the European N°1 Vodafone

The PACA Region mobile’s market:

- Penetration rate of 107.4%
- Biggest French region after the Ile de France
- 41,000 ICT jobs, including 1,200 research posts in the public sector
- 14 schools training 1,500 engineers each year
- More than € 400 M in public and private sector investment in 2009